THE AIR POLLUTION CRISIS ROOM
Three hours. One city. Can you clean its air without stopping it?
Hosted by Civic Games Lab and Habitat India
Every year the smog descends on Delhi. The city chokes, and we wait for someone else to fix it.
What if regular people held those roles?
Welcome to the Crisis Room: part emergency command centre, part city council, part city-building simulation. You take on a role you don't normally play: policymaker, builder, industrialist, street vendor, outdoor worker, farmer, renter. Crises land mid-meeting. You negotiate, spend limited budgets and live with the consequences.
At the centre is Fix It!, Civic Games Lab's city-building game. In teams, you build neighbourhoods with land tiles, then design your own interventions for transport, construction, energy, waste and industry. What your neighbourhood does affects the rest of the city.
At the end, the room writes a manifesto for Delhi's air. It feeds the Delhi Futures Report and a future report on how we build a greener city.
This isn't another discussion about pollution. It's a chance to run the city and find out what happens.
Duration: 3 hours
Open to: Citizens, students, designers, planners, researchers, entrepreneurs and anyone invested in Delhi's future