APF First Friday: Codesigning Foresight Games

About the session: Codesigning Foresight Games

Games are a powerful medium for exploring possible futures but they can be intimidating to design. Randy has designed dozens of games, often in collaboration with large organizations like the UN or WEF. In this talk, he'll present the collaborative design process he uses for creating foresight games that are fun and effective. He'll walk through the steps of the design process, calling out how to derisk the game and keep the team aligned. Along the way, he'll share specific advice on when to use different design patterns; how to empower stakeholders to contribute, even if it's their first time designing a game; and how to help facilitators successfully run the game.

Our Speaker:

Randy Lubin

Randy Lubin runs the consultancy Leveraged Play, which designs games that help organizations explore the future and explain complex issues. He's collaborated with NGOs including the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the Mozilla Foundation, and UNICEF to support foresight work on a wide array of topics. Common themes in his work are elections and misinformation, artificial intelligence and the economy, tech policy and governance, and the impacts of emerging technologies.

Randy also manages the Foresight Games community, designs consumer storytelling games through his studio Diegetic Games, writes science fiction stories, and maintains the free storytelling platform Story Synth. He's also advised and served on the leadership team of several tech startups. He lives in San Francisco, California, USA and has an MBA from Stanford University.

Member-only event