The Cascades Game

The Exploration Module
1. Click on “Start”.
2. Click on an event on the Map. You’ll see the associated video and social media content.
3. After learning one story, go back to the Map and view a new event.

The Classroom Module
1. Select your role.
2. Listen to the facilitator’s tips. Check in-game messages.
3. Make your decision and vote for selected Policies.
4. Propose your own Policy Proposals.

Cascading climate impacts, sustainability, global food chains, crisis management, system change, collaboration

• Reflexive and conceptual – participants challenge their mental models and values. They step beyond polarized thinking and silos of their expertise.
• Complexity and science-driven – scenarios based on the CASCADES consortium research give a sense of reality and foster complex thinking.
• Active and experiential – compared to written or oral forms of communication (such as articles or presentations), social simulation combines challenge, immersion, emotions, and learning-by-doing in a safe environment.
• People-oriented – the simulation can bring together a broad group of participants with different expertise. Interwoven and diverse narratives get participants’ attention and keep them engaged over the course of the whole workshop.
• Future-oriented – storyline to support visioning and planning.
• Easy to moderate – handbook and ready to use game materials makes it possible to moderate without extensive prior training.

Web applications (no download needed). Materials available on the game’s website.

• Requires preparation: printing and cutting cards
• Requires role-play

Devices with the latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, an internet connection, and a headset or a set of speakers (the simulation includes a series of videos that need to be played with sound). No additional software is required.

For Classroom Module: printer to print additional, paper materials.