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Experiment overview
An educational card game and methodology designed to make future scenario development accessible to diverse participants regardless of foresight expertise.
The initiative combined Sustainable Development Goals, global trends, and emerging technologies into a structured yet playful format that guided users through creating future visions while considering impacts across individual, organizational, and planetary scales.
Main objectives
The project made futures thinking more accessible by turning complex foresight methods into a card-based tool anyone could use. It helped players link global challenges to trends and technologies, and offered a website with case studies and examples for deeper understanding.
Achieved results
The game successfully simplified complex futures methodologies into an engaging format that gained international recognition, proved by workshop invitations from around the world.
The additional canvas tools enabled systematic analysis of potential impacts across individual, organizational and planetary scales, created a comprehensive framework for evaluating proposed futures beyond surface-level technological optimism.
Main reflection
Creating Futuro Cards taught me that even the best tools can’t fix broken foundations rooted in colonial sustainability frameworks.
While I loved seeing how the game helped people from all backgrounds imagine futures, I grew increasingly troubled by the SDGs themselves - recognizing them as extensions of Western-centric development narratives that perpetuate Global North hegemony while sidelining indigenous knowledge systems.
I watched corporations weaponize these goals for greenwashing while ignoring their complicity in ongoing ecological destruction and exploitation of Global South communities. The UN’s approach revealed itself as performative rather than transformative - another tool of Western dominance disguised as universal progress.
Eventually I faced a choice between popularity and integrity. I chose the latter, not only storing the remaining cards in my parents’ attic but ritually burning those left at my home as a ceremonial gesture of solidarity with communities whose voices are silenced by these neocolonial frameworks.
This burning ceremony marked my commitment to decolonial practice - rejecting frameworks that aren’t creating truly regenerative change and standing with those fighting against development aggression in the name of “sustainability.”