The Game

The Climate Collage is a serious game about climate change, based on collective intelligence and creativity. Whether you’re completely new to the topic or quite savvy, you can play the Climate Collage. In 3 hours’ time, you will retrace the IPCC*’s reasoning and you may even have fun doing it! You’ll also have the opportunity to discuss the consequences, challenges and changes that you see are coming or should be coming. *IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Who can play, and in what context?

School & high school kids, university students, politicians (incumbents and candidates), professionals & co-workers looking to learn more about climate change, to launch a corporate social responsibility (CSR) project or to organise a great team building, neighbours, family members & friends… and YOU? The Climate Collage has been and can be played anywhere, even at open air events such as music festivals, garden parties or political sit-ins (see Climate Collage Puzzle).

How do you play?

Participants will be divided into teams to find the cause & effect relationships between the 42 cards. Collectively, they will build a collage explaining climate change. Using not only their rational minds but also their creativity, they will add colour, choose a title, draw and write messages around the cards. This creative phase is key for the knowledge to sink in properly. Each team is then invited to briefly present their collage – which can be used as a poster to hang on the wall after the workshop. The final debrief is a collective discussion about climate change and its impacts on our collective and individual trajectories. Solutions and changes on the personal, economic or political level can be discussed.