The document outlines a three step process for post-digital transformation through playful and gameful approaches. Step 1 involves onboarding and discovery workshops to expose participants to new ways of thinking. Step 2 is an iterative process where participants design experiences to solve real problems using design thinking methodology. Step 3 involves achieving mastery through practice and sustaining changes in mindsets and practices by linking solutions to projects, funding, and training others. The overall process uses play and games to encourage discovering new ways of problem solving and digital engagement.

1. Post-Digital transformation
Through playful and gameful approaches
Dr. Sylvester Arnab
Reader in Game Science
Disruptive Media Learning Lab
Coventry University, UK

2. Changing mindsets to
influence practices
 An exploratory and evolving process, where participants are
encouraged to discover new ways of contextualising problem solving,
digital engagement, etc.
 A holistic participatory approach for discovering solutions that are not
technology driven
 Transformation through play requires a stepping up process
 Step 1: Onboarding and Discovery
 Step 2: Enthuse and Habit-Building
 Step 3: Mastery and Sustaining

3. Step1: Discovering and
Onboarding
 To expose participants to new ways of thinking by
taking them back to their childhood
 Example workshops:
 Introduction to Remixing play for changing mindsets and
practices
 Remixing Play into a GamePlan
 Thinking with your hands using Lego
 Understanding collective intelligence through Experience
Design cards

4. Step 2: Enthuse and Habit
Building
 This is an iterative process for participants to focus on
designing experiences when creating solution associated to
real problems
 Methodology:
 Design Thinking Sprint – design thinking methodology for creating
solutions in a holistic way
 Empathize
 Define
 Ideate
 Prototype
 Test
 Using play and games as key
Inspirations
 Participants will produce playful and
gameful solutions at the end

5. Step 3: Mastery and
Sustaining
 Step 2 is iterative and will achieve different masteries
through practice of the design thinking approach
 It is key for such change of mindsets and practices to be
sustained
 Possibly link to micro-projects, crowd funding,
investments of solutions produced
 Training the trainer approach – for participants to be
super users training others on the approach
 Methodology to be adopted and/or adapted for existing
practice

6. Dr. Sylvester
Arnab
s.arnab@coventry.ac.uk
Twitter: @sarnab75