Background: 

This workshop will help youth discover the potential of play for making a change! The interactive webinar will zoom in on the transformative power of gamification and game design to inspire changemaking - sparking imagination, demonstrating the power of storytelling in games, and showing how game mechanics can be used for collaboration and systems thinking in real-world challenges. 

Objectives: 

• Introduce the fundamentals of gamification and game-based learning in the context of sustainability and climate action
• Explore real examples of impact-driven games (e.g. sustainability card games, storytelling games, community simulators)
• Share key tools from Human-Centered Design, Systems Thinking, and Game Design
• Empower youth to create their own mini-game ideas or prototypes that address local sustainability challenges or have a group game with the participants.
• Inspire collaboration, experimentation, and bold thinking

This side quest is organized by:

• Chatty Changemakers - working to create a ripple effect of awareness and action extending beyond play and towards a more informed and proactive global community;
• NorthStar - an impact-driven platform that gamifies learning to make complex topics engaging, accessible, and meaningful; 
• The Youth4Capacity programme - building the capacity of young people to act on climate change while promoting active exchange of experiences and addressing the linkages between climate action, the SDGs, and the three Rio conventions.