Matteo Menapace - photo credit Aimee Johanan

Matteo Menapace

Manchester Metropolitan University

Matteo Menapace is a games designer, educator and a PhD candidate in games and the environment at Manchester Metropolitan University. He co-designed Daybreak, a cooperative board game about stopping the climate crisis.

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A game-making workshop to bring complex systems to life

Board games offer a powerful teaching tool to deepen understanding of complex dynamics such as climate. This analogue group task fosters the skills of systems thinking: setting boundaries, seeing multiple perspectives and holistic analysis

Adam Procter, Matteo Menapace

University of Southampton, Manchester Metropolitan University