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Hi, I’m Kurt — a designer driven by curiosity and purpose. Through my practice, I explore how creativity can communicate complex ideas, connect people, and imagine more sustainable futures.

Design Away Carbon Game

Reducing Carbon Emissions Is Fun

The Design Away Carbon challenge is a participatory game focused on incremental adaptation to reduce the carbon emissions of a fictitious city. This game was held at the Future BNE Challenge during World Science Festival held at Brisbane City Hall in collaboration with Relative Creative and Brisbane City Council. The Future BNE Challenge is Australia’s largest one-day educational event with over 650 grade seven students participating in a future-orientated, design challenge. Before the main event, over 200 students played the Design Away Carbon challenge where teams of 10 rapidly created visions of low carbon futures.

How to Play

Four large trays holding the games moved around the room. The students were required to reduce the carbon emissions of a fictitious city by swapping out the different services that make up the city (e.g. cars, landfill, housing) with lower carbon emitting services. Students had 2 minutes to create their city and keep it under 100 points. Once completed the facilitator would add up their score however the students didn't know the rating of each block leading to moments of surprise when they found out they were above or below the target.