Wildfire Games at UC Santa Cruz

We are developing a collection of minigames to help raise awareness, improve preparedness, and create resilience in the face of disasters from wildfire. Our approach is community-driven design, and we are working directly with residents and local experts in communities that have been recently disrupted by wildfires, to ensure that the games reflect the lived experiences of people in wildfire-prone areas. We have published our findings from early design workshops: https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3650735

Thank you for joining us on this journey and we would love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out to mljohns@ucsc.edu for more information about our project and how you can get involved.

Our project is funded by a generous grant from the NSF and is part of Smart and Connected Communities.