Open role-playing event: City of 2053

Welcome to an open role-playing event! The game is suitable for all adults and does not require prior knowledge or experience of role-playing or climate mitigation!

It’s year 2053. Climate change and ecological collapse have swept over Finland. Both life and
the living conditions have changed. Extreme weather has become more common. Limits of
material use have been met. The civilization is trying to find its way forward and fix what can
still be fixed. Personal carbon budgets are in use all over the world. But what would life be
like in a city with a 100 kg personal carbon budget when emissions have been reduced to 1%
of the previous level? How do we move? How do we live? How do we spend time? What’s our
housing like? How to maximize the quality of life on an already changed and still changing
planet while minimizing the use of materials and the carbon budget? What is meaningful
life like in a world that is not based on overconsumption and use of disposable items and
materials?

Although the workshop travels to the fringes of imagination, there is also a real need behind
it. The City of Helsinki aims at being carbon negative after the year 2040 and the goal of the
workshop is to find positive ideas of good and meaningful life in different futures.

The event is organized by City of Helsinki, Climate Unit