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Pluriversal Game Instructions

Follow the Steps Below

How To Play

How To Play

How To Play

Step # 1: Make a Team

Step # 1: Make a Team

Step # 1: Make a Team

Developing an inclusive pluriversal futures story is a team effort, so join an existing team or make one of your own.


Developing an inclusive pluriversal futures story is a team effort, so join an existing team or make one of your own.


Developing an inclusive pluriversal futures story is a team effort, so join an existing team or make one of your own.


Step # 2: Set your Challenge

Step # 2: Set your Challenge

Step # 2: Set your Challenge

The Challenge

The Challenge

The Challenge

The game logic begins with envisioning an endpoint in the future that you would consider successful based on your interest and your own sense of purpose. Your can print a gameboard, or play online here. In either case, have paper and writing tools on hand and choose your challenge.


You can either choose to solve a climate challenge from the Nexus Map or create your own challenge. Once you and your team have agreed on a challenge, write a one-sentence description of this successful pluriverse by using it in a mad-lib structure:


We envision a world in [date] when [choose your challenge] has had a positive outcome for the largest number of people.

The game logic begins with envisioning an endpoint in the future that you would consider successful based on your interest and your own sense of purpose. Your can print a gameboard, or play online here. In either case, have paper and writing tools on hand and choose your challenge.


You can either choose to solve a climate challenge from the Nexus Map or create your own challenge. Once you and your team have agreed on a challenge, write a one-sentence description of this successful pluriverse by using it in a mad-lib structure:


We envision a world in [date] when [choose your challenge] has had a positive outcome for the largest number of people.

The game logic begins with envisioning an endpoint in the future that you would consider successful based on your interest and your own sense of purpose. Your can print a gameboard, or play online here. In either case, have paper and writing tools on hand and choose your challenge.


You can either choose to solve a climate challenge from the Nexus Map or create your own challenge. Once you and your team have agreed on a challenge, write a one-sentence description of this successful pluriverse by using it in a mad-lib structure:


We envision a world in [date] when [choose your challenge] has had a positive outcome for the largest number of people.

What makes a good challenge?

What makes a good challenge?

What makes a good challenge?

A good challenge for this ideation game is a complex, multi-faceted challenge for which there is no one definitive way to solve it. It has neither a right or wrong. A challenge that requires new ontologies, epistemologies and worldviews to work with fruitfully. In short – growth.


By allowing players to choose their own challenge, we hope that the game might have broader appeal beyond the foresight community.

A good challenge for this ideation game is a complex, multi-faceted challenge for which there is no one definitive way to solve it. It has neither a right or wrong. A challenge that requires new ontologies, epistemologies and worldviews to work with fruitfully. In short – growth.


By allowing players to choose their own challenge, we hope that the game might have broader appeal beyond the foresight community.

A good challenge for this ideation game is a complex, multi-faceted challenge for which there is no one definitive way to solve it. It has neither a right or wrong. A challenge that requires new ontologies, epistemologies and worldviews to work with fruitfully. In short – growth.


By allowing players to choose their own challenge, we hope that the game might have broader appeal beyond the foresight community.

Step # 3a: Build A Character and Individual Story

Step # 3a: Build A Character and Individual Story

Step # 3a: Build A Character and Individual Story

Pluriversal Role Cards

Pluriversal Role Cards

Pluriversal Role Cards

Using the Pluriversal Role Generator below, each player is dealt one card from each of the four categories below. You should see one from each category:

  • Ways of Being

  • Ways of Knowing

  • Ways of Doing

  • Ways of Making


  1. Take a screenshot of your cards for easy reference later.

  2. Pick the Card that resonates most with you.

  3. Consider the card and the accompanying prompt. You can use the tips here to get you started 👉

  4. Lastly, choose a name for your character and write it down. Don’t overthink it. Be playful and not too prescriptive.

Step # 3b: Try These Starter Prompts

Step # 3b: Try These Starter Prompts

Ways of Being

Ways of Knowing

Ways of Doing

Ways of Making

Frame Breaker

Ways of Being

Ways of Knowing

Ways of Doing

Ways of Making

Frame Breaker

Ways of Being

Ways of Knowing

Ways of Doing

Ways of Making

Frame Breaker

Pluriversal Role Traits

Pluriversal Role Traits

Pluriversal Role Traits

Pluriversal Role Traits

Generate Your Pluriversal Traits Here

Refresh the page to generate your pluriversal traits and don't forget to take a screenshot of your cards for easy reference later.

Weaver

Threading Together

How might you weave connections to make a stronger whole?

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Visionary

Setting the Compass

How might you set a new North Star?

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Timekeeper

Honoring Time

What time cycles will you honour?

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Teacher

Sharing knowledge

How might you inspire others to learn and grow?

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Storyteller

Keeper of Tales

What story might you tell that brings people together?

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Steward

Responsible Guidance

What does intergenerational fairness look like in this story?

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Rebel

Challenging Systems

What systems or norms might need to be hospiced?

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Lore Man

Generational Knowing

What might ancestors teach us about how to move forward?

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Guardian

Safeguarding Futures

What sacred parts of the story need to be protected?

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Farmer

Cultivating the Soil

What kind of soil enables growth?

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Storytelling

Ancestral Stories

What cultural stories or practices inform your story?

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Relationality

Seeing Connections

How are people, animals and planet interconnected in this story?

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Reimagining

Redefining success

What new definitions of 'success' make your story possible?

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Regenerative

Nature's Design

What ecosystems make your story possible?

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Protecting

Resisting Extractivism

What resources are integral to community identity in your story?

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Decolonizing

Ontological Disobedience

What new ontologies might emerge in your story?

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Co-Learning

Evolving Together

How might the story adapt over time based on shared insights?

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Co-Autonomy

Self-Determination

What community decisions are pivotal in your story?

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Empirical

Sensory Knowledge

What evidence or assumptions might you examine to find a new story?

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Spiritual

Sacred Knowing

What larger purpose might your story serve?

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Relational

We Are All Connected

How might interconnectedness shift our priorities?

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Placed-based

Wisdom of Place

How might local context offer a guiding frame in your story?

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Philosophical

Seeker of Truth

What fundamental concepts of existence or truth matter in this story?

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Narrative

The Stories We Tell

What language matters in this story?

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Moral

Ethical Compass

In what ways might fairness, justice, or care guide your story?

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Intuition

Feel to Understand

How might emotion offer insight on what matters most in your story?

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Embodied

Learn with your Body

How does your body feel about this new story?

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Communal

Wisdom of Crowds

What can only be known through others?

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Ancestral

Wisdom Flows

How might traditions & stories shape your story?

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Aesthetic

Feeling with Eyes

What artistic expression tells a part of your story?

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Adaptive

Flex & Flow

What might emerge when you embrace flexibility?

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Tacit

Hands on Learning

How might learning by doing expand your story?

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Ceremony

Sacred Futures

What small ritual or ceremony might bring this story to life?

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Mapping

Threads of Connection

What lies in the connections between people, land, history & culture?

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Material

Use What You Have

What reimagined artifact is imagined here?

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Musical

Composing New Sounds

What soundscape represents the rhythms of your future?

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Prototyping

Adaptive Creation

What flexible iterative, adaptive steps will you take?

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Unmaking

Dismantle to Reimagine

What will you unmake to allow new futures to emerge?

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No need to click on the cards - just note which ones you generate for your profile

No need to click on the cards - just note which ones you generate for your profile

No need to click on the cards - just note which ones you generate for your profile

No need to click on the cards - just note which ones you generate for your profile

Step # 4: Character Introductions and Shared Story

Step # 4: Character Introductions and Shared Story

Step # 4: Character Introductions and Shared Story

Step # 4: Character Introductions and Shared Story

A Pluriversal You

A Pluriversal You

A Pluriversal You

A Pluriversal You

Each player introduces their character to the group. As a team each player takes the posture of their 'Pluriversal Self' and together you face the challenge.


Begin a discussion as a team, of how you reached your success, given who you are as a collective of characters. 


The goal is to reflect, engage in generative dialogue and create a truly shared story. When the dialogue feels complete, spend some time time writing this shared story.

Consider:

  • How did these characters get to these solutions, together?

  • How do each character’s strengths (or blind spots) contribute to solutions for the group? 

  • What is the chemistry of the team?

  • What emerged out of the group dynamics?

    If you’re playing online, you can contribute a story to the Pluriversal Chronicles portion of the website; a repository of stories from Pluriverses meant to inspire and help us develop our ability to try-on and try-out Pluriversal Futures, building our capabilities in ourselves and our communities.

Each player introduces their character to the group. As a team each player takes the posture of their 'Pluriversal Self' and together you face the challenge.


Begin a discussion as a team, of how you reached your success, given who you are as a collective of characters. 


The goal is to reflect, engage in generative dialogue and create a truly shared story. When the dialogue feels complete, spend some time time writing this shared story.

Consider:

  • How did these characters get to these solutions, together?

  • How do each character’s strengths (or blind spots) contribute to solutions for the group? 

  • What is the chemistry of the team?

  • What emerged out of the group dynamics?

    If you’re playing online, you can contribute a story to the Pluriversal Chronicles portion of the website; a repository of stories from Pluriverses meant to inspire and help us develop our ability to try-on and try-out Pluriversal Futures, building our capabilities in ourselves and our communities.

Each player introduces their character to the group. As a team each player takes the posture of their 'Pluriversal Self' and together you face the challenge.


Begin a discussion as a team, of how you reached your success, given who you are as a collective of characters. 


The goal is to reflect, engage in generative dialogue and create a truly shared story. When the dialogue feels complete, spend some time time writing this shared story.

Consider:

  • How did these characters get to these solutions, together?

  • How do each character’s strengths (or blind spots) contribute to solutions for the group? 

  • What is the chemistry of the team?

  • What emerged out of the group dynamics?

    If you’re playing online, you can contribute a story to the Pluriversal Chronicles portion of the website; a repository of stories from Pluriverses meant to inspire and help us develop our ability to try-on and try-out Pluriversal Futures, building our capabilities in ourselves and our communities.

Step # 5 : Create a Shared Team Story

Step # 5 : Create a Shared Team Story

Step # 5 : Create a Shared Team Story

Step # 5 : Create a Shared Team Story

A Shared Story

A Shared Story

A Shared Story

A Shared Story

The challenge we face is of a particular world - often reflective of a dominant, European-centric, capitalist, rational, secular and patriarchal self. Viewing our challenges through this lens, shapes our reality and our ability to think about what might be possible.

This game invites you to shift towards a more pluriversal perspective encompassing many different ways of being, knowing, making and doing. Taking on the character your pluriversal role cards suggest, consider how you'll face this challenge together.

Begin a discussion as a team, of how you reached your success, given who you are as a collective of characters. The goal is to reflect, engage in generative dialogue and create a truly shared story.

When the dialogue feels complete, spend some time time writing this shared story. How did these characters get to these solutions, together? How do each character’s strengths (or blind spots) contribute to solutions for the group?  What is the chemistry of the team? What emerged out of the group dynamics?

The challenge we face is of a particular world - often reflective of a dominant, European-centric, capitalist, rational, secular and patriarchal self. Viewing our challenges through this lens, shapes our reality and our ability to think about what might be possible.

This game invites you to shift towards a more pluriversal perspective encompassing many different ways of being, knowing, making and doing. Taking on the character your pluriversal role cards suggest, consider how you'll face this challenge together.

Begin a discussion as a team, of how you reached your success, given who you are as a collective of characters. The goal is to reflect, engage in generative dialogue and create a truly shared story.

When the dialogue feels complete, spend some time time writing this shared story. How did these characters get to these solutions, together? How do each character’s strengths (or blind spots) contribute to solutions for the group?  What is the chemistry of the team? What emerged out of the group dynamics?

The challenge we face is of a particular world - often reflective of a dominant, European-centric, capitalist, rational, secular and patriarchal self. Viewing our challenges through this lens, shapes our reality and our ability to think about what might be possible.

This game invites you to shift towards a more pluriversal perspective encompassing many different ways of being, knowing, making and doing. Taking on the character your pluriversal role cards suggest, consider how you'll face this challenge together.

Begin a discussion as a team, of how you reached your success, given who you are as a collective of characters. The goal is to reflect, engage in generative dialogue and create a truly shared story.

When the dialogue feels complete, spend some time time writing this shared story. How did these characters get to these solutions, together? How do each character’s strengths (or blind spots) contribute to solutions for the group?  What is the chemistry of the team? What emerged out of the group dynamics?

Sphere logo

An invitation to radically reimagine futures possible.

Developed by

Sarah B. Brooks

Dexter Lam

Phong Huynh

Jen Stumbles

A work-in-progress Design Futures Project developed as part of the UH Masters of Foresight Program.

Sphere logo

An invitation to radically reimagine futures possible.

Developed by

Sarah B. Brooks

Dexter Lam

Phong Huynh

Jen Stumbles

A work-in-progress Design Futures Project developed as part of the UH Masters of Foresight Program.

Sphere logo

An invitation to radically reimagine futures possible.

Developed by

Sarah B. Brooks

Dexter Lam

Phong Huynh

Jen Stumbles

A work-in-progress Design Futures Project developed as part of the UH Masters of Foresight Program.

Sphere logo

An invitation to radically reimagine futures possible.

Developed by

Sarah B. Brooks

Dexter Lam

Phong Huynh

Jen Stumbles

A work-in-progress Design Futures Project developed as part of the UH Masters of Foresight Program.