Speakers 2025

Katherine Buse is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and the Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization at the University of Chicago. She writes and teaches about video games, technoscience, science fiction, and the environment. Her book in progress, Speculative Planetology: Science, Culture and the Building of Model Worlds, explores how the scientific work of modeling planets is inextricable from the culture and aesthetics of science fictional world building. Katherine is also a game designer who engages questions of science, technology and the environment. She is a founding member of the Degrowth Game Design Project (DeGDP), a group that is rethinking the role of game design in imagining environmental futures, and she was on the design team for Foldit: First Contact (2022), an experimental narrative campaign mode for the citizen science game Foldit.

Presenting:

• Educators Summit: Teaching Games with Games IX: Climate Crisis