Redaktion
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Kooperation
This project, funded by Gebert Rüf Stiftung, is supported by the following project partners: Zurich University of Arts; Ommon GmbH; Smartvote; Easyvote; Youth parliament «Junger Rat»; Mercator Foundation; E-Government Schweiz.
Projektdaten
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Projekt-Nr: GRS-016/20
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Förderbeitrag: CHF 150'000
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Bewilligung: 13.01.2020
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Dauer: 06.2020 - 12.2022
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Handlungsfeld:
First Ventures, seit 2018
Projektleitung
Projektbeschreibung
Over the recent years, mobile games gained immense popularity. Meanwhile, the political climate around the globe is getting more tense. Democratic institutions are questioned, while (political) individuals grow their following. In Switzerland, democratic participation is around a steady 50% during elections, and between 30-70% during votes.
Globalization and digitalization are rendering the political discourse more complex, while diverse and highly customized entertainment offers channel our interests towards leisure activities and media consumption instead of political self-education. Especially young people are asking for more user friendly, digital support, when it comes to finding and structuring neutral, political information.
PROJEKT CH+ is a participatory initiative, which aims to use game mechanics, in order to make political self-education more inviting and to motivate political self-reflection, awareness and participation. Through online surveys and testing sessions, people from all political corners have the opportunity to contribute to the concept of modern voting aids, which are being developed in an iterative process from election to election. Our goal: the Federal Elections 2023!
Was ist das Besondere an diesem Projekt?
The project’s iterative nature, which is based on co-design and interdisciplinary exchange, allows for the identification of new solutions at the intersection of politics, game design and user experience. In every development cycle, users have the possibility to influence their voting aid by participating in online surveys or testing sessions. PROJEKT CH+ aims to create incentives for fact-based political self-education and to increase motivation for political participation of people below 35 years of age.
Stand/Resultate
During the Federal Elections in October 2019, 500 people shaped the initial concept for the CH+ web app through surveys. In March 2020, 200 people used the first prototype in the canton Uri. During elections in autumn 2020, 500 people registered to use the voting aid in Basel-Stadt. Since the 2021 elections in Neuchâtel, we have two voting aid apps in development: the usability-focussed CH+App and the entertainment-focussed DOPE Elections. Now that both apps got the green light in the canton Fribourg, we continue to develop these concepts together with voters from all over Switzerland, so that we are ready for the Federal Elections 2023.
Publikationen
Walker, S. (2020). Projekt CH+ Games for Democracy. User-friendly Political Self-education through Entertainment Design. Gamevironments, 13, 457–491.
Retrieved fromWalker, S. (2021). PROJEKT CH+ Games for Democracy: Third Iteration Project Report. GSGS 21 - 6th Gamification & Serious Game Symposium. Lausanne.
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Links
Am Projekt beteiligte Personen
Letzte Aktualisierung dieser Projektdarstellung 17.01.2023