Breathing Games

Breathing Games is a global open access commons promoting respiratory and mental health, and health commons. Since 2014, the commons hosted over 20 co-creation events (game jams) and developed research projects in Canada, Switzerland, France, Italy and South Korea. Activities are financed by public research funds (Canada, France, Italy, South Korea) and private foundations (Switzerland).

Breathing Games main legal sponsor is the Breathing Games Association, registered in Geneva. The commons is a member of the WHO Global alliance against chronic respiratory diseases, and the Open Source Initiative.

• Global report 2014 ⋅ 2021

Respiratory health promotion

The community develops open-source games for respiratory health, as well as open-source hardware to transform the breath pressure and flow into digital signal, using a creation-as-research methodology. First devices were produced by Sensorica. The major outcomes are summarized in following presentation:

• Open-source games for health, multiplayer and gamepads. Co-creating fun care with children with asthma, young adults with cystic fibrosis, elders with COPD

In 2021, Breathing Games presented further examples of commons for respiratory care.

• Open-source respiratory health commons. 15 projects communities can adapt, repair, reproduce for low cost medical care (libre and open-source tech)

Advocacy for health as commons

Since 2020, Breathing Games hosts advocacy activities to promote health as commons.

• GHF Open Village 2020
• Geneva_Health_Forum_Open_Village_2022
• Other events