This week we reached a milestone in the development of the major Live Action Role Play event that will be held online and in person in March-June 2026. We have at last decided what kind of administrative decision our fictional decision system – which will be designed by LARPing a participatory co-design process – will be tasked with making! This leap forward was made possible through the Research Direction Collective who welcomed Dr Alexandra Sinclair (Sydney) to the process.

The participatory system co-design LARP we are currently developing will be set in a sensor-enabled ‘smart environment’. We wanted to find out more about these contexts and their challenges, so we met with Lynne Falconer (Stirling) for a fascinating chat about her research on smart aquaculture and ‘precision farming’.

This week we were invited to speak about the Future of Good Decisions project’s use of Live Action Role Play as a research method, at the Ada Lovelace Institute in London.

On 5 November we held the second meeting of the Future of Good Decisions Government and Civil Society consultation. At the AHRC-funded session, Connal Parsley, Conor Heaney, and Ruth Catlow presented an outline of themes from the first consultation meeting.