Are you ready to lead your town through an extreme weather event? With the game designers behind ‘The Future For Beginners’ — Climate Curious

Could you protect your city through an extreme weather event? ‘The Future For Beginners’ is a game exploring climate risk and decision-making under uncertainty. Working together over 80 minutes, 30 players negotiate challenges and make decisions to create an unforgettable cultural event in the face of catastrophe. Having just played the simulation, Climate Curious’s Maryam Pasha sits down with these game maestros to ask, why a climate simulation game? And how does creating mini mayors in all of us help inspire climate action? “Games can be quite good at giving people that real zoomed out bird's eye view of something while still letting you inhabit it”, says game designers Mel Frances and Nathan Harrison on Climate Curious. Recorded at TED 2026.

For more information on Future for Beginners, head here:https://davidfinig.com/the-future-for-beginners/

Read more about Mel and Nathan's wider practice head here: https://bohointeractive.com/playing-through-complexity'

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