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How do you make just and responsible decisions during the energy transition under stress and uncertainty?

Together with the JustETrans project from TU Delft, Game Lab and Leiden University, we launched Infrarium – The Justice Edition.

Inside a transformed shipping container filled with smoke, flashing lights, and constant noise, teams must collaborate to solve complex infrastructure challenges. While taking into account the effects of their decisions on the global south, workers in the port, energy poverty, and biodiversity. How do these ethical considerations impact decision-making? How to deal with them responsibly? How to deal with them fast!

This new edition of Infrarium offers a unique immersive experience that also contributes to state of the art research into normative decision-making under stress and uncertainty.

Want to invite Infrarium to your location?

We are looking for locations to run our new set-up. Infrarium can be moved to a location of your choice and a session will be supervised by experienced facilitators. Contact Dr. Ir. Igor Nikolic i.nikolic@tudelft.nl or Dr. Ir. Geerte Bekebrede g.bekebrede@tudelft.nl for more information.

Forty-five minutes of stress in a sea container that has been transformed into an infrarium filled with physical and mental challenges. How do you go about laying energy cables without disrupting industry or energy suppliers? How can you work with others in a small space filled with smoke, flashing lights and incessant noise? What effect do stress and emotions have on decision-making? The Energy Grid Game simulation reveals the challenging decisions that the energy sector will face during the current energy transition. This case focuses on the Port of Rotterdam. The game was designed by Igor Nikolic, associate professor of participatory multi-modelling, and Geertje Bekebrede, associate professor of serious game design. The goal is to allow participants to experience, both physically and emotionally, the urgency, cohesion, mutual dependence and complexity of the energy transition. 

A piece in the TU Delft stories has been published about Infrarium!

In dutch:

https://www.tudelft.nl/stories/articles/onder-stress-kabels-trekken-in-het-infrarium-de-energy-grid-game

In English

https://www.tudelft.nl/en/stories/articles/laying-cables-under-stress-in-the-infrarium-the-energy-grid-game

On Friday, October 8, 2021, during Symposium & Inauguraal lecture of Prof. Aukje Hassoldt Infrarium will be officially presented to the world. We are in the final sprint to get everything ready for the event.

In order to make Infrarium communicate the realities of infrastructure development better, we aim to reuse as much of old infrastructure materials as possible. Below impressions of the gracious donation of old car charging stations by Siemens Netherlands, with many thanks to Dick van der Veen for organising it.