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Playing with the Trouble

A library for transformative play

  • About
Playing With The Trouble Map
Embracing Ambiguity Collective Imagination Surfacing Worldviews Unmaking Systems Staying with the Trouble
  • Welcome to the library

    Welcome to the library

    About the games and activities—and the thinking behind them

  • Roles & Relics

    Roles & Relics

    Embark on a journey of shared imagination! Step into an unknown world that faces societal challenges unlike your own.

  • Return of the Mac

    Return of the Mac

    A dynamic game to experience the worst side of capitalism and grow agency to do otherwise!

  • Future Webs

    Future Webs

    Explore opportunities for change by interweaving imagined futures

  • Night at the Barricades

    Night at the Barricades

    Role play climate activists in a tense night of activity

  • Sunsets & Sunrises

    Sunsets & Sunrises

    Which futures are we letting go of—and which new ones are emerging?

  • Open-hearted Devils

    Open-hearted Devils

    A guided meditation exercise to help you get in touch with your inner wildness, your untamed inner reality

  • Tension Lines

    Tension Lines

    Explore the values of your team members in a web of intertwining worldviews

  • The Squirrel

    The Squirrel

    Once upon a time, there was a squirrel on a quest to find the special acorn…

  • Future Landscapes

    Future Landscapes

    What (do you imagine) lies ahead of us?

  • Material Metaphors

    Material Metaphors

    Explore the perspectives of stakeholders through modelling metaphors

  • Hero

    Hero

    … who cared about the forest and wanted to transform it

  • New Metaphors

    New Metaphors

    Generate ideas and reframe problems

  • Musical Transformations

    Musical Transformations

    [coming soon]

  • Falling in Love: A Warm-up

    Falling in Love: A Warm-up

    [coming soon]

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