Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes

The Intentions Behind The Game

A Large Scale Participatory Futures Game.

Intentions

Collective Imagination

The game invites us to explore how we might harness our collective imaginations and commit our shared capacities and resources towards equitable, inclusive, pluriversal futures.


Intentions

Intention of play mechanism

Game play mechanisms will help players practice and become familiar with empathy, relationality, and design thinking without needing to get deep into technical solutioning. By creating interesting constructs of characters for game play, players exercise self and inter-relational reflection that is foundational for pluriversal existence.

Intentions

Intention of cards

Players construct unique worldviews as composites of different ways of being, knowing, doing, and creation. The cards represent characteristics of identity, values, culture, and behaviours framed in unconventional but familiar terms. This approach helps players construct relatable worldviews that do not get stuck in mainstream and potentially polarizing tropes.

Intentions

The Set up

The game is purposefully starting with a premise of players living in desired futures. Players choose a challenge based on the groups interest and purpose, and state a one-sentence description of it using this structure:

Envision a world in 2040 [or define your own date] when [insert your challenge here] has been addressed in a positive and meaningful way.  

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An invitation to radically reimagine futures possible.

Sphere logo

An invitation to radically reimagine futures possible.

Sphere logo

An invitation to radically reimagine futures possible.

Sphere logo

An invitation to radically reimagine futures possible.