The issue of engaging citizens in urban development and planning has experienced a significant increase inudrecent years. Traditional planning, control and communication approaches are reaching their limits in a moreudcomplex stakeholder landscape and an increasing desire of citizens for engagement. Novel approaches toudinform and involve citizens in a playful co-creation process are necessary. Serious games and gaming areudincreasingly considered as the magic bullet for elevated stakeholder involvement and citizen engagement inudurban planning and governance. But they are also discussed as means to instigate learning and capacityudbuilding processes and to raise awareness for urban core topics. These learning processes can unfold inuddifferent formats, such as social or game-based learning. This paper investigates, if playing the serious gameudprototype ‘Mobility Safari’ instigates social and specific learning processes and motivates players for audplayful public participation. The Mobility Safari is a serious game prototype that was developed for the Cityudof Vienna, integrating Vienna’s SMART city ambition to transition towards a more sustainable mobilityudsystem. The analysis illustrates that the serious game indeed instigates and evokes learning processes duringudthe game play and in the debrief covering a broad range of different learning activities and social interaction.udIncomplete rule-sets and un-governed situations triggered discussions where the players linked the gamewithudtheir real-world experience and were urged to confront those experiences and actual practises. On theudother hand, the willingness for active participation, which indeed takes a lot of effort, could be observed lessudoften. Our analysis suggests that Mobility Safari is indeed a suitable mean for learning processes and supportudin a moderate way the interest in participation processes. We learned that a careful design, facilitation andudsufficient time for a debrief to reflect on the game experience is crucial for a deeper learning experience thatudis meaningful for real-world contexts.
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