Role-Playing for Climate, Wellbeing, and Transcultural Understanding

2-Day Interactive Workshop and Lecture in Kyoto (2024/11/27-28)

Registration closes October 25. Language: English. Participation is free.

This English-language workshop with public lecture is dedicated to developing and presenting role-play scenarios focusing on climate change and health in a transcultural context. Jointly organized by the Heidelberg University Hospital, Kyoto University, the University of Göttingen, and the Heidelberg University Office, Kyoto (HUOK), it aims to create a profound awareness of these critical issues through interactive learning methods and public discourse.

Speakers Barteit, Schreiber, and Kamm will guide academics, students, and experts from Japan and Germany to create role-play scenarios using design thinking methods. These scenarios simulate realistic challenges in the web of climate change, physical and mental health, and intercultural understanding of these realities to promote strategic thinking and problem-solving.

The two-day workshop concludes with a public lecture and networking event in which the developed scenarios and their solutions will be presented to a broader audience. This part of the program will be held at the HUOK premises and seeks to stimulate public dialogue on the topics discussed, in addition to disseminating the workshop results.

The workshop is supported by the German Centre for Research and Innovation Tokyo (DWIH Tokyo) and the Japanese-German University alliance HeKKSaGOn.

Participation in both, workshop and lecture, is free.

Please see the project website for a detailed program.

Workshop registration via this form.