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Decorating the Doughnut

A participatory workshop to discover the workshop landscape, connect human needs and planetary boundaries on a Doughnut-shaped board, and choose which themes to explore next in your learning pathway.

Decorating the Doughnut connects issues that are often explored separately: climate, biodiversity, food, mobility, digital technology, water and health. Participants explore cards drawn from several workshops and place them on a Doughnut-shaped board. Inspired by Kate Raworth’s model, it relates human needs, the ways we meet them and planetary boundaries. The experience offers an introduction to these workshops or a chance to put existing knowledge into perspective. It helps participants build a more systemic picture of socio-ecological issues and identify which workshops to explore next, creating a starting point for a personal learning pathway.

Collage workshops are card games for small groups: you piece together how climate, food, digital technology or biodiversity actually work. Each explains its own piece, and none of them shows how the pieces fit. Decorating the Doughnut brings their cards to one table: your plate, your screens and your car draw on the same fresh water and the same energy. You leave with the connections that matter, and a path of your own: where to start, and what comes next.

Ecogames developed this workshop. It is published under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: reuse it, adapt it, credit Ecogames, no commercial use.
It quotes cards from about ten partner workshops, named card by card, and exists to lead people to them. Ecogames distributes more than half of registration fees back to those workshops' supporting associations.

2h45 in person

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The board: a three-ring doughnut, from human needs at the centre to planetary limits on the outside

In a public event

Ecogames authored this workshop. It is published under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: reuse and adapt it, crediting Ecogames, for non-commercial purposes, sharing your versions on the same terms. The facts it cites belong to the originating workshops, named on every card.

"Three well-chosen sets are enough to name all ten workshops in the catalogue."

What this workshop enables

Connect issues met separately in different workshops.
Understand the doughnut model, including the middle ring the classic version lacks.
Spot competing uses: the same resources claimed by several activities.
Identify the most useful next workshop and open a Workshop Passport.

Who it is for

People who have attended one or more workshops and are looking for the thread between them.
Organizations that have hosted several workshops and want a shared understanding out of them.
Facilitators who want to situate their own workshop within the whole.
Groups unsure which workshop to programme next.