News – Geogames Lab

Special Issue

There is still time to submit your research to our Special Issue on Geogames in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. We are welcoming contributions that explore the use of digital, analogue, and hybrid geogames for urban planning, community engagement, and spatial decision-making.

The deadline for submissions is September 30.

Call for papers: https://lnkd.in/eK6fUiK9

3rd Geogames Symposium

Proceedings of the Symposium were successfully published: https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/geogames/

Events like the 3rd Geogames Symposium don’t happen by themselves. Behind every session, keynote, and game night is a dedicated team working tirelessly to bring our community together.

A heartfelt thank you to all participants (online and offline), members of the scientific and program committees, to all reviewers, student volunteers, to the co-sponsors Iowa State Center for Excellence in the Arts & Humanities (CELT), Geogames Lab and the Iowa State University – College of Design, to Iowa State University for hosting us at the Student Innovation Center, Memorial Union and the College of Design, and to all supporting institutions including TU/e and UCD. Your support made this truly possible.

We can’t wait to do it all again in Brazil!

The Emotions Geogame Team

We are working on The Emotions Geogame and were excited to present at the 3rd Geogame Symposium: Niall Sharma, Arti Fitch, Alenka Poplin and Elizabeth Kendall are the happy team.

Defining Geogames

See the most recent ideas and publication:

Poplin, A. 2025. Geogames: An expanded definition, application areas, geogame types, and a proposed research agenda. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083251382383

2nd Geogames Symposium

We successfully completed the 2nd Geogames Symposium at the University College Dublin in Ireland on June 9 – 10. Thank you to all participants for this exciting exchange of ideas, inspirations, game developments and prototypes! It was a pleasure to meet all of you in Dublin! We hope to see many of you in Ames, Iowa next year for the 3rd Geogames Symposium! Save the date: May 3 – 6, 2026!.