Polity

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Imagine learning about wicked social problems, and their complex solutions, without having to read boring policy papers and theories, no analysing case studies and age old policies. Imagine learning to solve wicked problems by playing games!

Polity is Asia’s first experiential policy course!

In Polity we learn how to make appropriate climate change policy, gender equity policy, inclusive development policies through games and simulations! In Polity, you experience the life of a waste collector, a garment factory worker, to form appropriate policies that actually respond to their needs. You plan the water resources of a city, or design your own city from scratch(!) on systems dynamic tech models, and the predictive model, trained on real world data, tells you the impact of your decisions 5 , 10, 20 years later.

Polity is ushering in a new future of improved, appropriate and inclusive policy making in India.

Why Games for Policy?

Polity uses easy to play games, simulations, models and activities to get participants to experience the perspective of all stakeholders involved, experience and practice inclusive and bottom up visioning, strategizing and planning for the development of their communities.

Games are an inclusive medium for education (as a pedagogical tool) and enhance collaboration because anyone can participate in them, irrespective of educational background, exposure and experience.
Games are an extremely effective medium of learning because participants are more willing to take risks, be creative, and experiment, as they don’t have the risks of failure.
Games allow for collecting intangible data in the form of preferences and biases that is crucial for policies.
Games create an inexpensive and highly engaging medium to test various policies and their outcomes with different affected and influencing groups.

Objectives of the course

Alternative method for data collection and analysis
Bottom-up participatory data collection, planning, and practices
Systemic solutioning for Wicked Problems
Understanding different climate-associated risks, mitigation, and adaptation
Understanding the use of serious games in the policy context
Understanding Wicked Problems
Understanding interconnectedness and intersectionality of sectors while measuring impact
Visioning

These objectives will be tailored based on the target audience and the course requirements in discussions with the facilitators and convenors/organisers.

3 months | 12 weeks | 30 hours

Every Saturday 10 am - 12:30 pm

November 2022 - January 2023

Online Virtual Course

Course Fee: Rs. 50,000

(If you require a scholarship to attend this course, please email trina@fieldsofview.in with your scholarship requirement.)

The course fee includes:

Experience of playing the games
Learning to use the experiential tools for yourself to do inclusive bottom-up design of programs and interventions
Learning to facilitate the use of these experiential tools for your team and community.
Get an open license to use our tools in future for yourself or for your community.
Get access to all assets in the tools to use for yourself or your community in future.

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Apply by
2 October 2022

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Become a Champion of Inclusive Development (CID), where you uncover not crimes, but complexities!

For any questions or clarifications contact
Trina Talukdar, Lead, Polity, at trina@fieldsofview.in

Rubbish

This game will have you play roles of different stakeholders in the solid waste management value chain, and interact with each other, trade, negotiate, in order to experientially understand the bottlenecks in the value chain, and the perspective of all the different stakeholders.

74th Amendment

74th Amendment is a series of activities, role plays and workshops to understand how the local governance systems in India work, as per the 74th Amendment of the Constitution of India, and how we can engage with the local governance bodies as citizens.

Fields of View Workshop

This tool brings together the unique perspective of everyone on the team, so we can analyse problems from the perspective of different stakeholders, and do bottom-up planning for a common vision for social problem solving.

Ondu Kathe Keli

This experiential game will help you understand the diverse experiences of people in a community, and how their needs and preferences in terms of housing, employment, public spaces, and so on, are very diverse, too, so you can plan interventions for the community to truly respond to their needs and preferences.

Solemnly Resolve

This game on the values in the Preamble of the Indian Constitution will have you play different roles in a democracy, like a journalist, citizen, politician, and negotiate a series of legal case studies to help you experientially learn about how you can implement the values in the Preamble of the Indian Constitution in real life political situations and decision making.

Hanigalu

This simulation gets participants to plan the water usage patterns of the ﬁctional city, Paanipura, based on complex data models

Cantor's World

This game gets participants to assume roles of government decision-makers responsible for saving the future of a ﬁctional country in a climate change crisis.

City Game

This game will have you go around in turns and design your ideal city. Through the course of the game, you will learn the factors to consider in order to build a city where everyone has equitable access to resources.

E-QLT

While conventional approaches look at the static nature of vulnerability, E-QLT allows for understanding dynamic household vulnerability, and how shocks make a household more vulnerable. It also allows one to explore the role of different types of social protection mechanisms towards stitching a social protection net for the vulnerable communities.