{"id":1772,"date":"2026-04-21T13:17:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/decoupling\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:17:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:17:56","slug":"the-sustainability-sandbox-cancan-wang-receives-funding-for-new-research-project-using-gamified-representations-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/decoupling\/the-sustainability-sandbox-cancan-wang-receives-funding-for-new-research-project-using-gamified-representations-of-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Sustainability Sandbox’: Cancan Wang receives funding for new research project using gamified representations of reality"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cancan Wang<\/a> has recently been funded with a new project titled ‘The Sustainability Sandbox’ (SuS) through ITU discovery grant. SuS is a gamified representation of real-life sustainability projects, used to simulate and visualize the roles and needs of participants in addressing a specific sustainability problem. SuS is an action research project that aims to investigate about how sustainability data governance is experienced by actors positioned differently in a local business ecosystem through a game design process.<\/div>\n
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The project addresses two challenges that were revealed in Cancan’s previous projects on sustainability data practices around SMEs:<\/div>\n
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  1. Small business owners are more likely to pursue sustainability when they see peers and stakeholders move this way and gain from it. This suggests that ecosystem actors like clusters or incubators may be better positioned than individual SMEs to organize their sustainability efforts, though the exact role of ecosystem actors and the coordination model with SME\u2019s in organizing SMEs\u2019 sustainability, is not clear<\/u>.<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n
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    SMEs do not have the time or resources to gather large amounts of data to gain sustainability insights, leaving open the question of whether and\u00a0how data, as a governance instrument,\u00a0could be used by ecosystem actors for steering collective actions on sustainabilty transition<\/u><\/i>.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    The project builds on two assumptions around how to engage with challenges, which they hope to gain more insights about:<\/div>\n