Dr. Federico Andreotti is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Wageningen University, Environmental Systems Analysis group (ESA), and coordinator of the WUR Games HUB. Federico graduated from Wageningen University in 2017 with a master’s degree in Resilient Farming and Food systems. His PhD project focused on the co-design and application of serious games for the sustainability transition of farming and food systems. During this year he co-founded the WUR Games Hub, at Wageningen University, connecting multiple researchers that use games to bridge science and society. Since graduating, for his PhD he continued to conducting research and teaching about games design and play and participatory research methods to explore futures farming and food systems.

Join us Tuesday 17 February from 3-5:00pm GMT (4-6:00pm CET) both online and in-person for the interactive event "Serious games for future food systems".

Participants can attend online, in-person in Wageningen, or in-person in Oxford.

Serious games are becoming a key tool in exploring sustainable strategies for transforming food systems. This session, organized in collaboration with WUR Community of Practice on Foresight and Scenario Analysis, the CiFoS team, WUR Games Hub, and TABLE, invites participants to play one of several food systems games and will include a short introduction to serious games. 

Participants attending in-person at WUR will be playing the CiFoS game, a board game focused on redesigning food systems for both human and planetary health, developed by the CiFoS team led by Hannah van Zanten, and designed by an interdisciplinary team of experts led by Federico Andreotti and Demi Hordijk, in collaboration with the Bomburo design studio (Andreotti, Hordijk et al. 2026). 

Furthermore, this event marks the launch of a physical game library at Wageningen University in partnership with the Teaching and Learning Center, as well as an online game library with TABLE (Games at TABLE). 

Schedule

Welcome and introduction: 16:00-16:30 CET / 15:00-15:30 GMT 
CiFoS game sessions: 16:30-18:00 CET / 15:30-17:00 GMT 

Visit the Games at TABLE Library.

Learn more about serious games.

If you are interested in checking out the online games that were played and discussed in the breakout sessions after the event, here is the list:

• Food Security Quest
• half-earth socialism
• Survive the Century
• Farm to Fork

To learn about the CiFoS game, which was played at the in-person session at WUR, read more here. To learn about Barefood, the game which was played at the in-person session at Oxford, read more here.