{"id":14920,"date":"2025-10-02T09:36:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8d.nl\/?post_type=projecten&p=14920"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:25:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:25:45","slug":"green-transitions","status":"publish","type":"projecten","link":"https:\/\/8d.nl\/en\/projecten\/green-transitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Transitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Intergenerational learning for a sustainable future<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Together with partners from Portugal (Aproximar CRL), Greece (OECON GROUP), and Slovakia (Technical University of Ko\u0161ice), we contributed to the European project Green Transitions. At the heart of this initiative lies the power of intergenerational learning: young and older people learning, reflecting, and taking action together on sustainability and climate change. 8D played a key role as facilitator of the design process and developer of an interactive serious game that translates theoretical learning modules into engaging, scenario-based experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n Train youth workers in intergenerational learning focused on sustainability and climate <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Bring young and older generations together in joint learning processes <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Connecting generations through intergenerational learning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The urgency of climate action is felt worldwide. Yet knowledge sharing about sustainable practices often remains limited to fragmented campaigns or isolated learning moments. Intergenerational learning offers a more holistic and long-term approach, where different generations reflect together on consumption, energy use, and civic engagement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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By actively involving both young and older people, the learning process becomes truly reciprocal. Young people bring urgency and fresh perspectives, while older adults contribute valuable experience and context. This dynamic increases the likelihood of lasting behavioral change and transforms climate communication into a two-way exchange rather than one-way instruction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n \n<\/div>\n

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In a scenario-based game, one of the greatest challenges lies in creating the content: the narrative scenarios and the branching choices. How do you condense complex knowledge into short, accessible situations? And how do you build consensus within an international consortium of partners and experts? To make this process run smoothly, we designed a collaborative writing system with structured formats and clear guidelines for content and translations.This, to us, is design in its broadest sense: not only the gameplay and visual end product, but also shaping the process itself so that creativity can flourish within clear boundaries. In this way, endless brainstorming is avoided, and a consistent, appealing result is achieved. We essentially oversee the process from above and see that as part of our role as designers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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