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Play Pluriversal Chronicles

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How To Play

How To Play

How To Play

Step # 1a: Make a Team

Step # 1a: Make a Team

Step # 1a: Make a Team

Developing an inclusive pluriversal futures story is a team effort so the first thing you need to do is make a team. We'll assign you into teams (or you can make your own) and you'll work together to create a Pluriversal Futures story.

Developing an inclusive pluriversal futures story is a team effort so the first thing you need to do is make a team. We'll assign you into teams (or you can make your own) and you'll work together to create a Pluriversal Futures story.

Developing an inclusive pluriversal futures story is a team effort so the first thing you need to do is make a team. We'll assign you into teams (or you can make your own) and you'll work together to create a Pluriversal Futures story.

Join the Miro Workspace

Step # 1b: Join the Miro Party 🎉

Step # 1b: Join the Miro Party 🎉

Step # 1b: Join the Miro Party 🎉

Step # 1b: Join the Miro Party 🎉

Join us over here in Miro to access the Pluriversal Canvas. The button below will open the Pluriversal workspace in Miro but make sure you keep this site open.



✨ Open the Miro GameKit

✨ Open the Miro GameKit

✨ Open the Miro GameKit

✨ Open the Miro GameKit

Step # 2: Set your Challenge

Step # 2: Set your Challenge

Step # 2: Set your Challenge

Step # 2: Set your Challenge

The Challenge

The Challenge

The Challenge

Envision a world in 2040 where people have found ways to thrive with climate change.

Envision a world in 2040 where people have found ways to thrive with climate change.

Envision a world in 2040 where people have found ways to thrive with climate change.

The game purposefully invites you to start from a desirable future and work backwards to identify the contributions of each of your team member's pluriversal roles.

The game purposefully invites you to start from a desirable future and work backwards to identify the contributions of each of your team member's pluriversal roles.

The game purposefully invites you to start from a desirable future and work backwards to identify the contributions of each of your team member's pluriversal roles.

The Nexus Challenge Map show us that Food, water, and energy are interconnected elements in any climate solution set. Begin your explorations by choosing one path to focus on from the triangle and write your challenge in the format below:


"We envision a world in [date] when people are thriving despite changes in the climate and [insert your your Nexus challenge here] has been addressed in a positive and meaningful way."

The Nexus Challenge Map show us that Food, water, and energy are interconnected elements in any climate solution set. Begin your explorations by choosing one path to focus on from the triangle and write your challenge in the format below:


"We envision a world in [date] when people are thriving despite changes in the climate and [insert your your Nexus challenge here] has been addressed in a positive and meaningful way."

The Nexus Challenge Map show us that Food, water, and energy are interconnected elements in any climate solution set. Begin your explorations by choosing one path to focus on from the triangle and write your challenge in the format below:


"We envision a world in [date] when people are thriving despite changes in the climate and [insert your your Nexus challenge here] has been addressed in a positive and meaningful way."

✨Miro GameKit Instructions

✨Miro GameKit Instructions

✨Miro GameKit Instructions

If you're playing in ✨Miro GameKit you'll see on your collective TEAM canvas there's space for you to write your challenge in the first column. You can see an example here.



Step # 3a: Build A Character and Individual Story

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 random Pluriversal Role Generator below, each player receives a combination of four cards from the categories below.
In this beta game version, you'll have to take a screenshot of your cards for easy reference later.

  • Ways of Being

  • Ways of Knowing

  • Ways of Doing

  • Ways of Making

✨Miro GameKit Instructions

✨Miro GameKit Instructions

✨Miro GameKit Instructions

If you're playing in ✨Miro GameKit you can use the random generator below to select 4 cards OR you can select them yourself from the Pluriversal Role Cards on the left hand side of your canvas.

Move your 4 cards over to your Individual game board. You can see an example here.

Step # 3b: Try These Starter Prompts

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

Step # 4: Pick a Frame Breaker

Step # 4: Pick a Frame Breaker

Step # 4: Pick a Frame Breaker

Step # 4: Pick a Frame Breaker

Frame Breaker Cards

Frame Breaker Cards

Frame Breaker Cards

Frame Breaker Cards

Someone in the group chooses a framebreaker card.

Let that be for a moment


The Frame Breaker cards represent another prompt to help you break the frame of your own worldview and intentionally expand your range of possibility.

Someone in the group chooses a framebreaker card.

Let that be for a moment


The Frame Breaker cards represent another prompt to help you break the frame of your own worldview and intentionally expand your range of possibility.

Someone in the group chooses a framebreaker card.

Let that be for a moment


The Frame Breaker cards represent another prompt to help you break the frame of your own worldview and intentionally expand your range of possibility.

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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Step # 5: Personal Reflection [3-5 minutes]

Step # 5: Personal Reflection [3-5 minutes]

Step # 5: Personal Reflection [3-5 minutes]

Step # 5: Personal Reflection [3-5 minutes]

A Pluriversal You

A Pluriversal You

A Pluriversal You

A Pluriversal You

Reflect on each of the cards, and choose one that speaks to you.

After you've chosen, consider the questions in the ✨Miro GameKit on your individual game board, and put your responses on sticky notes:


  • How do you contribute to making this future possible?


  • What enables your worldview to show up positively and productively to thrive through your challenge?


  • What might your worldview have to let go of in order to meaningfully thrive and contribute?


  • What might others need to understand in order to co-create with your worldview?

Step # 6 : Create a Shared Team Story [15-20 minutes]

Step # 6 : Create a Shared Team Story [15-20 minutes]

Step # 6 : Create a Shared Team Story [15-20 minutes]

Step # 6 : Create a Shared Team Story [15-20 minutes]

A Shared Story

A Shared Story

A Shared Story

A Shared Story

Now using the Collective Team Game Board in the ✨Miro GameKit explore the challenge as a group, using your reflections and the perspective you've taken on from your own Individual Pluriversal Role card. Incorporate your shared team Framebreaker somewhere in the story.


Discuss as a team, 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 your 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?



    📌 Add your thoughts in the sticky notes.

Now using the Collective Team Game Board in the ✨Miro GameKit explore the challenge as a group, using your reflections and the perspective you've taken on from your own Individual Pluriversal Role card. Incorporate your shared team Framebreaker somewhere in the story.


Discuss as a team, 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 your 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?



    📌 Add your thoughts in the sticky notes.

Now using the Collective Team Game Board in the ✨Miro GameKit explore the challenge as a group, using your reflections and the perspective you've taken on from your own Individual Pluriversal Role card. Incorporate your shared team Framebreaker somewhere in the story.


Discuss as a team, 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 your 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?



    📌 Add your thoughts in the sticky notes.

Step # 7 : Collective Reflection [10 mins]

Step # 7 : Collective Reflection [10 mins]

Step # 7 : Collective Reflection [10 mins]

Step # 7 : Collective Reflection [10 mins]

Collective Reflection

Collective Reflection

Collective Reflection

Collective Reflection

Reflect together on the story, process, and answer the final two questions along the right-hand side of your individual player canvas.


  • What did I find most difficult about this worldview?

  • What am I most curious about in this worldview?


📌 Add your thoughts in he sticky notes.



Reflect together on the story, process, and answer the final two questions along the right-hand side of your individual player canvas.


  • What did I find most difficult about this worldview?

  • What am I most curious about in this worldview?


📌 Add your thoughts in he sticky notes.



Reflect together on the story, process, and answer the final two questions along the right-hand side of your individual player canvas.


  • What did I find most difficult about this worldview?

  • What am I most curious about in this worldview?


📌 Add your thoughts in he sticky notes.



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.