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Perspectivity Game

Limerick – 5 February 2020

Facilitator: Gabriela Avram

A Serious Challenge

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Set up

• 6 teams play 10 rounds
• Each team starts at one of the 6 extremities
• f the board
• Each team represents an imaginary nation
• The game board represents the world

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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.

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Economic crisis

• The least developed nation (lowest revenue) may be hit by an economic

crisis.

• Game leader announces the occurrence of a crisis.

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

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When you start

• Start with 1 free factory at your start point
• Start field is 3x multiplier
• Start capital is 5

Goal: 
 Have the highest revenue at the end of round 10.

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There is a prize to win!

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Game over! Self-reflection!

• Fill in the work sheet (7 minutes)

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What did (and did not) happen?

Exchange at your table

• Dynamics, communication, behaviour?
• Effects?

Exchange between game tables

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Explain what happened at your table.

And the ‘winner’ is ……

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End Scores

TEAM World 1 World 2 Yellow

5

8 Purple

7

5 Green

4

7 Black

7

6 Orange

5

7 Blue

8

14

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Goal: 
 to have the highest revenue at the end of round 10.

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There is a price to win!

End Scores

TEAM World 1 World 2 Yellow

5

8 Purple

7

5 Green

4

7 Black

7

6 Orange

5

7 Blue

8

14 Total 36 43 Pollution round 10 22 12 Capital destroyed 192 181

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Reflections

• What is the maximum score possible and how do you reach this?

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The ‘optimal’ scenario

Maximum revenue 20 20 20 20 20 + 22 122

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The ‘green’ scenario

Maximum revenue 15 15 15 15 15 + 17 92

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’Worst case’ scenario

Minimum revenue 30

Previous scores

Perspectivity Game 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 28 55 83 110

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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?

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What was going on within the Game?

• Can you name the key dynamic that informed the game (clue Hardin,

1968)

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”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)


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Tragedy of the Commons

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Tit for Tat – Optimum Strategy

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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

Traffic as “Commons”

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Conveyor belt as “Commons”

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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

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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?

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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’.

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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