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Decorating the Doughnut

A collaborative card workshop for 4 to 8 people, connecting the workshops you have already attended and showing what they have in common.

This workshop is played with cards, around a table. Each card carries a fact drawn from another workshop (climate, biodiversity, digital technology, food and others) verified in a public source. Players guess, flip the card, and place it on a doughnut-shaped board: human needs at the centre, planetary limits on the outside, and between them the way we meet those needs today. The board fills up as play goes on, and it is the group that fills it. What no single workshop shows then becomes visible: eating and moving around press on the same limits. The session ends with a passport pointing to the next workshop.

Workshops work well one at a time, but nothing connects what they teach, and that connection is exactly what acting requires: knowing that food, mobility, and digital technology compete for the same fresh water and the same metals changes the conversation.

This workshop fills that place. It replaces no other workshop : it relates them to one another, and it points to the one to do 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.