Proof Through Play: Making Future Skills Experiential and Measurable

This participatory Lab introduces experiential escape rooms as a practical, scalable, and tested solution for making a student’s future skill development experiential and measurable. Experiential learning creates the conditions for meaningful, lasting learning by engaging people directly in the process of doing, deciding, and reflecting. It creates space for guided reflection, helping learners make sense of their experience, deepen understanding, and transfer learning into future practice.
During this Lab session, we will collaboratively explore a practical question: How can universities design motivating, experiential learning structures that both cultivate and generate observable evidence of Future Skills, even under financial and technological pressure?
Participants leave with a concrete design template and a realistic pilot pathway for their institution.

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