Gaming (the) Systems

Can games help us understand and steer the complex systems we inhabit towards safe, responsible and sustainable futures?

In this interactive session, Thomas Biedermann (ANU School of Cybernetics) will outline the utility of games leading in complex systems, and highlight current projects, including the ANU Gameful Learning Community of Practice. Transdisciplinary practitioners, students, partners and gamers are all welcome.

Monday 7 September | 12-1pm | McCusker Institute, John Yencken Building

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The ANU McCusker Institute Front Room offers a dedicated space and time, for our growing cohort of people to come together informally to learn and reflect on each other's practices, motivations and challenges. We invite all who are connected with the McCusker Institute - students, fellows, affiliates, partners, staff - or anyone who is interested in building a shared collaborative culture to enable social change, to keep in touch with our community and contribute to our development.

The format is intentionally low-key — designed to build genuine connection across the cohort while also helping McCusker Institute better understand the questions, challenges and opportunities emerging across our community.

This event series is led by Sejul Malde, McCusker Institute Affiliate, the Collaborative Research Initiatives Manager, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU & the Strategic Partnerships and Initiatives Lead, Cobeo

Sejul works at the intersection of research, partnerships, and collaborative culture-building. Alongside his role at ANU, he co-leads Cobeo, a research-based initiative helping people and organisations navigate collaboration more effectively — making the often invisible dynamics of working together visible, and giving teams practical tools and language to address them. His background spans the cultural and community sector, corporates, think tanks, policy, and philanthropy, with a consistent focus on people, values, and building collaborative capability for social good.