Perspectivity Game Limerick – 5 February 2020 Facilitator: Gabriela Avram
A Serious Challenge Perspectivity Game
Set up • 6 teams play 10 rounds • Each team starts at one of the 6 extremities of the board • Each team represents an imaginary nation • The game board represents the world Perspectivity Game
What can you build? (1) Factory • Costs: 3 units of capital • On triangle intersections • Must be connected to start point with uninterrupted road • Yields 1 unit of revenue in the next round • Creates pollution Perspectivity Game
What can you build? (2) Clean Factory • Costs: 5 units of capital • On triangle intersections • Must be connected to start point with uninterrupted road • Yields 1 unit of revenue in the next round • Creates no pollution Perspectivity Game
What can you build? (3) Road • Costs 1 unit of capital • On triangle sides • In order to bring money home your factories must be connected to start point Perspectivity Game
Revenues • 1 factory = 1 unit revenue in next round • Strategic locations: Multipliers (2x and 3x) • Always maintain uninterrupted road to your starting point • Expand and build beyond your own area Perspectivity Game
What else can you do with your capital? Upgrade existing factory to a ‘clean’ factory • Costs 3 capital units Savings • To be added to next round’s capital • Savings are not allowed at the end of round ten Perspectivity Game
Conflict • When multiple players place a road or factory in the same location. • Players are first allowed to voluntarily negotiate, reconsider and/or withdraw. • If no one moves, the dice needs to be thrown. • The highest dice wins the conflict and can stay. Others are removed from the board – with no reimbursements. Perspectivity Game
Economic crisis • The least developed nation (lowest revenue) may be hit by an economic crisis. • Game leader announces the occurrence of a crisis. Perspectivity Game
Each Round • Discuss and decide (2 minutes) - Plan strategy to spend your capital in private • Return to the game board table - Submit filled score sheet upside down • Execute your decisions • Resolve conflicts - If there are any.. • Count factories - To determine revenue for next round Perspectivity Game
When you start • Start with 1 free factory at your start point • Start field is 3x multiplier • Start capital is 5 Perspectivity Game
Goal: Have the highest revenue at the end of round 10. There is a prize to win! Perspectivity Game
Game over! Self-reflection! • Fill in the work sheet (7 minutes) Perspectivity Game
What did (and did not) happen? Exchange at your table • Dynamics, communication, behaviour? • Effects? Perspectivity Game
Exchange between game tables Explain what happened at your table. Perspectivity Game
And the ‘winner’ is …… Perspectivity Game
End Scores TEAM World 1 World 2 5 Yellow 8 7 Purple 5 4 Green 7 7 Black 6 5 Orange 7 8 Blue 14 Perspectivity Game
Goal: There is a price to win! to have the highest revenue at the end of round 10. Perspectivity Game
End Scores TEAM World 1 World 2 5 Yellow 8 7 Purple 5 4 Green 7 7 Black 6 5 Orange 7 8 Blue 14 Total 36 43 Pollution round 10 22 12 Capital destroyed 192 181 Perspectivity Game
Reflections • What is the maximum score possible and how do you reach this? Perspectivity Game
The ‘optimal’ scenario Maximum revenue 20 20 20 20 20 + 22 122 Perspectivity Game
The ‘green’ scenario Maximum revenue 15 15 15 15 15 + 17 92 Perspectivity Game
’Worst case’ scenario Minimum revenue 30 Perspectivity Game
Previous scores PWC- Sustainability Group O2 Sustainable Design Society Foreign Investments Organisation (FMO) Indicorps Londen School of Economics Cambridge Sustainable Leadership Programme Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare & Sports DSM global risk management Dutch Foreign Affairs Diplomats Class Simgapore security officers conference Asian Forum for Global Governance University of Amsterdam Shell Global Business Leadership Programme Arab Bank World Bank Leadership Program Shell Strategy Group Clingendael Balkan Diplomats Training 0 28 55 83 110 Perspectivity Game
Second Chance? • If you were to play the game again right now – what would you do differently? • What would the impact be? • What would be essential to ensuring it happened? Perspectivity Game
What was going on within the Game? • Can you name the key dynamic that informed the game (clue Hardin, 1968) Perspectivity Game
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Tragedy of the Commons ”Acting out of self-interest will ultimately deplete a shared limited resource, despite individuals’ understanding that it is contrary to the groups long-term best interest.” Tragedy of the Commons, Garret Hardin, Science (1968) Perspectivity Game
Tit for Tat – Optimum Strategy Perspectivity Game
Meaning & Value Your world of … . • Can you share cases in your professional environment that follow similar dynamics? • Take ten minutes with a partner to identify some places in your work, society, and across the world where these dynamics play out Perspectivity Game
Traffic as “Commons” Perspectivity Game
Conveyor belt as “Commons” Perspectivity Game
Issues around ‘commons’ • Overfishing the oceans • Academic integrity, reputation and standing • Tax and insurance systems • Refusal to integrate into the departmental community • Spam email: A joy for a few, a burden/cost for many • Doping in sports Perspectivity Game
Cafe Conversation • With one issue – • Describe the basics of the issue • What scale, who is involved, what happens, what doesn’t happen • Then … . If you were in control what would you do to address this issue – who would be involved?, how would they be involved? What would you do to address the key characteristics we named earlier? Perspectivity Game
About Perspectivity Our conviction • We need collective wisdom to face todays challenges in this diverse and complex world.. • Systemic approaches and self-reflective learning are needed to unlock collective creativity, passion and commitment for ation. What we do? • We design and facilitate processes for paradigm changes. • We offer practical tools to measure what concerns people. • We train ‘leaders’ and ‘followers’. Perspectivity Game
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More info? • www.perspectivity.org • Like us on Facebook.com/perspectivity • Talk with us on the LinkedIngroup • Follow us on Twitter # perspectivity • Mail to game@perspectivity.org Perspectivity
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