Imagining an optimistic carbon-negative future

Co-funded international exchange programme that envisions a positive climate future through the creation of a tabletop role-playing game.
With the support of Arts Active and funding from Wales Arts International, Taith, and Erasmus Plus, we've brought together passionate young people aged 16-25 from Wales, Kempten (Germany), Sligo (Ireland), and Trento (Italy). Through online and in-person sessions, this international team is developing an accessible game and setting that serves as a catalyst for positive change. Challenging the prevailing sense of 'climate doom', while avoiding the pitfalls of unrealistic utopianism, the game envisions a future society that has taken active steps to address the global climate crisis through large-scale rewilding initiatives, creating huge carbon-negative regions worldwide.

Read the full WAI Case Study here!

Download Game FREE! Published on Itch.io here!

Physical copies available in the UK atTabletop Emporium - Cardiff

Partnering Organisations: Erasmus+, Taith, Fonds Soziokultur, Kempten Kulture, Creative Ireland Programme, Sligo County Council, Associazione Inco, Stadtjugendring Kempten,
Wales Arts Interactive, Books Council of Wales, Arts Active Trust and Loco Ludus.

Co-funded international creative digital exchange programme involving youth groups aged 15+ in Germany and Wales. It takes the form of an original tabletop roleplaying game experience that will evolve through the input and experiences of the players participating. It will comprise regular online virtual tabletop games and workshops with up to 32 young participants, including guest speakers from published game designers. It culminates in the online publication of a unique set of game materials that will be available in English, Welsh and German. Set in a fantasy world that draws on shared Celtic mythology as well as local landscapes, stories and traditions, it will be the young people who map and populate this world with cultures, creatures and magic.
Published on Itch.io here!
Physical copies available in the UK at Rooks Press
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Partnering Organisations: Loco Ludus, Kempten Kulture, Wales Arts Interactive, Arts Active, Criw Celf

Check out our first podcast chronicling the project:

Part of the Winter of Wellbeing and Summer of Fun, this was a youth lead historical roleplaying project, where young people got to create and play different 'D&D style' adventures based around buildings in St Fagan’s collection.

Participants got to play in the actual buildings, and each got a credit on the final adventure designs, to be published bilingually online - Published on Itch.io here!

Partnering Organisations: Amgueddfa Cymru, Federation of Museums and Art Galleries of Wales, Winter of Wellbeing, Welsh Government

Inside – Outside: VR Project with Caerphilly Over 50

Taking the "outside - inside" into care homes across South Wales with the power of VR and 360 filming. Producing 360 video experiences from across Wales - from Falconry Shows to Elvis performances.
https://www.copacharity.com/2023/05/27/virtual-reality-in-care-homes/

Partnering Organisations: Caerphilly Over 50, National Lottery Community Fund, Caerphilly County Borough Council

Devised with the National Museum Wales Youth Forum, focused on a Congolese Spirit Doll, a series of workshops with experienced bereavement councillors was run. Young people had a process they could add their memories and photo-scanned 3D memorial objects to a collective virtual memorial space we created.

Starting as a purely VR experience, in light of the pandemic we produced an accessible 360 video version of the experience that can be viewed either in 3D in VR or on any regular video device. See it here.

Partnering Organisations: National Museum Wales, Cruse Bereavement Care Cymru