EKOS

It is the near future in the City of Ekos. The planet is rapidly urbanizing, placing tremendous pressure on cities and urban areas to provide good living conditions for the majority of humanity… A group of community members must come together to design and build a network of resilient systems, and envision a more equitable and sustainable Ekos in the face of climate change and other challenges. As one of six actors — a City Council Speaker, City Planner, Community Organizer, Ecologist, Designer, and Modeler — it is your mission to use resources wisely, collaborate with others and improve the adaptive capacity of your systems against extreme events like heat waves, floods, power outages and pandemics. To win, players must use systems thinking and explore concepts of resilience to collaborate, problem solve, and envision just urban futures. The game continues until one player earns 15 Ekos points