The IDEAS Science Team has successfully advanced to the finals of the Hackathon with their innovative proposal, ‘Thermaform Your City’.
We are pleased to announce that the IDEAS Science team, participating in the I-CISK project, has been selected as a finalist in the B-Prepared Hackathon with our board game Thermaform Your City. This innovative, open-source game helps players explore the challenges of urban heat adaptation in an engaging and playful way.
About the Hackathon
The B-Prepared Hackathon is an international competition that invites innovators, developers, designers, content creators and problem-solvers to design creative solutions that strengthen disaster resilience and preparedness. Participants are divided into four categories: Disastropedia, VR-prepared, IM-prepared and RU-prepared.
The hackathon is being held across three locations:
13 September – Luxembourg
18-19 September – Budapest
24- 25 September – Limoges.
We are honored to join other inspiring teams and projects as finalists, including:
- Avalanche Search Game
- PanicPack Web-based Game
- NBSINFRA’s Nature-Based Solutions for a Secure Tomorrow
- Disasters – Using Machine Learning
- Dispatches from the Edge: Lessons from a World Without Backup
- Canals to Crisis: Aveiro’s Walk with Water
- and others under development within the hackathon ecosystem.
Our Project
Our finalist project, Thermaform Your City, is a board game designed to raise awareness about heat stress and climate adaptation in urban environments. The game invites players to experiment with decisions about green spaces, infrastructure, and adaptation measures, helping them better understand how to build resilience against heatwaves.
As part of our preparation, we also created a short introduction video — you can watch it here:
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101037293.