Fostering communication and collaboration through regenerative design games

This paper explores how regenerative design games might foster the communication and collaboration skills needed to scaffold transitions to just and sustainable futures. It explores three design games, each co-designed with different people, for different intents and purposes but each with the shared aim to build people’s capacity for regeneration, open communication, and effective collaboration. Framed by critical pragmatism and performed through co-design, the paper discusses the role of games in explorations of uncertain futures and highlights the important role played by care practices in co-design processes.