Playing Climate Justice Conversations online

These instructions are for playing Climate Justice Conversations in online groups, such as on Zoom, Teams or Jitsi calls.

If you are a large group (7+), consider dividing everyone into breakout groups to play the game. We'd recommend groups of 3-5 people.

Preparation

Someone in each group should volunteer to discuss the relationship between their research and climate justice.

The player should go to https://cards.chaseclimatejustice.network/demo/ and share their screen with their breakout group.

If you want to explore the deck together, you can do this by repeatedly pressing the 'Draw' button or the 'd' key to view cards from the deck.

Once you are ready to start, press the 'Shuffle' button or 's' key to restart.

The game

You will use the cards to address the following question:

What work needs to be done to attend to climate justice?

The player decides to explore the answers to the question above for one domain/ context from the following list:

• In my own research
• In my discipline/sector
• In my institution

So you might ask, for example: 'What work needs to be done to attend to climate justice in my discipline of performing arts?'

Then draw three cards.

• Move the cards manually by clicking and dragging each card individually, and then double-clicking on the card to flip.
• Or press the 'Draw' button (or the 'd' key) three times.

Use the cards to answer the question - consider the images, the words, the feelings they evoke. Pick out ideas that feel relevant, and ignore the rest. Try to make connections between the cards:

• One card could express a problem, and another points towards a solution;
• One card might represent an ally, another an obstacle;
• The cards might be the beginning, middle and end of a story;
• Or something else!

Talk through your answer to the question with your group. If you are stuck, invite them to help.

Once done, move on to the next person, who will ask the same core question as above and draw their own cards. (You can either change who shares screen at this point, or instruct the person presently sharing screen to press the 'shuffle' button and draw cards as instructed by the new player)