RAPID GAMES DESIGN

Give your next kick-off meeting, networking event or away day the attention it deserves and treat your team to one of our game-based workshops. They are innovative, fun – and effective.

The Rapid Games Design format taps into your team’s potential to get real results.

"The Rapid Games Designing workshop was one of the best I've ever attended. Not only was it fun, but it also facilitated positive collaboration, strategy, and consideration of implications and connections."

Ellen MacDermid. President, MacDermid Consulting.

Workshops

Get groups talking, breaking silos and making connections. A networking session to remember!

Start your workshop or meeting off right. Set up a positive, inclusive, innovative dynamic and get everyone’s brains warmed up to your topic.

Every project needs a kick-off meeting. You’ll map your project and its context and get your team on one page. An investment in the success of your project!

Is a project not happening as smoothly as you expected? This workshop tackles common obstacles to get you to that “Aha!” moment.

This workshop leverages your team’s knowledge and skills to get to stress-tested, co-designed new solutions to a challenge.

This workshop makes it easy for your team to work with systems thinking concepts to create practical innovations and deep understanding.

A key way to make sure that change happens – and sticks – is co-designing it with your team. In this workshop, your team will explore the change and create actionable steps.

Practical information

2 hours – 1 day
Fully facilitated workshop
12-60 participants
All games materials provided

Examples of past workshops

• ‘ADD: Research network symposium’ – University College Cork

• ‘Build back better’ – Edinburgh University

• ‘Marketing strategy development’ - Karl Storz SE & Co Germany

• ‘Food security’ – Oxford University

• ‘Catchment resilience' - South Africa

• ‘Climate action’ – University College Cork

What is Rapid Games Design?

Rapid Games Design, created by Prof Bruce Lankford and developed with Joanne Craven, uses board game components to help engage with complex issues quickly and effectively by building games about them.

The workshop starts with rapidfire warm-up exercises, then participants work in groups to create games tailored to the workshop topic. Afterwards, we analyse the games. What’s been learned? What can we take forward? What is missing?

It’s not about the games (we usually don’t play them). It’s about what we learn by prototyping games together.