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Project 2050 digital artwork
Video, 30 mins

Project 2050

Part of Festival of the Mind
18 Sep 2020 15:00

Engineering students from the Sheffield Engineering Leadership Academy (SELA) talk about developing an interactive film / game where the player has to make potentially word-saving, engineering-based decisions.

About the project

In the interactive Project 2050 exhibit, you play the role of an engineer dealing with the global challenges posed by famine, water shortage, disease and natural disasters. The experience is designed to demonstrate what we’re preparing our engineering students for.

Project 2050 is brought to you by the 2019 cohort of the Sheffield Engineering Leadership Academy (SELA), a group of outstanding students recruited to work with industry partners and academics on real-world problems.

Credits

Research

  • Engineering students from the Sheffield Engineering Leadership Academy (SELA)

Curation

  • Part of Festival of the Mind 2020

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