Food City
● SUSTAINABILITY
A board game about building equitable and sustainable food systems.
BOARD GAME
01 / "alternative protein" x maria natasha 02 / "gmos" x maria natasha 03 / "processed foods" x maria natasha
04 / "overfishin" x maria natasha
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Co-created with game designer, Jessica Creane, Food City is a worldbuilding board game where players explore different aspects of the food system as they work through challenges and possibilities that benefit both themselves and their competitors.
Project Goals
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Multifaceted Perspectives
We’re sourcing insights, ideas, cautions, and claims that consider sustainability, ethics, economics, and culture.
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Engaging Play
Designed with good times in mind with guidance from a professional game designer.
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Imagining Futures
Filled with art and creativity, the game culminates in a unique storytelling experience,
Food systems are demanding, complex, and deeply entangled in power structures. But understanding them doesn’t have to be.
LED BY THE PLENARY, CO. TEAM IN COLLABORATION WITH JESSICA CREANE
Whether literally or conceptually, food is at the center of nearly every important conversation. From building equitable systems to considering sustainable impacts to animal welfare to health to economics – it all comes back to food.
That’s why our flagship board game centers on the intricacies, challenges, and possibilities in our food system both as it is and as it could be.
