Antidote
Way of learning about de-growth through a card game. On the one hand, gamifying makes a complex economic model easier to digest, and on the other, a key and beautiful element of degrowth is that is can start from the bottom up. People are tired of waiting for changes from above, and card games gather you with your friends and family around a table, which is the first step to making big change.
Multidisciplinary design
With Otto Bridgeham, Anna Gayete, Toni Bové, Xavi Estivill.
Context
De-growth suggests that, if we want to reduce our carbon emissions, our economies cant continue to grow. However the technical defintion of degrowth is not this simple. Moreover, knowing how we can actually implement degrowth into our daily lives is even more complicated.
There are hundreds of suggested degrowth policies, touching on dozens of different topics. A lot of people, like us, believe degrowth might be the answer to a sustainable future, but the truth is that at first its confusing. We’ve been studing Degrowth for 3 month and we still find it confusing. And confusion leads to misconceptions. It is our hypothesis that mass misconceptions are inhibiting degrowth from evolving. For degrowth to progress, it needs to be easier to understand.
De-growth suggests that, if we want to reduce our carbon emissions, our economies cant continue to grow. However the technical defintion of degrowth is not this simple. Moreover, knowing how we can actually implement degrowth into our daily lives is even more complicated.
There are hundreds of suggested degrowth policies, touching on dozens of different topics. A lot of people, like us, believe degrowth might be the answer to a sustainable future, but the truth is that at first its confusing. We’ve been studing Degrowth for 3 month and we still find it confusing. And confusion leads to misconceptions. It is our hypothesis that mass misconceptions are inhibiting degrowth from evolving. For degrowth to progress, it needs to be easier to understand.
Formalisation
Our response to this challenge was to gamify this complex cencept. We’ve developed an entertaining way of learning about degrowth through a card game. On the one hand, gamifying makes a complex economic model easier to digest, and on the other, a key and beautiful element of degrowth is that is can start from the bottom up.
People are tired of waiting for changes from above, and card games gather you with your friends and family around a table, which is the first step to making big change.
You and your company are faced with a series of perplexing riddles on cards. The riddles are related to relevant environmental issues. Your task is to solve these riddles and puzzles, and work your way through the game, uncovering solutions to these environmental issues as you go.