Poetics of Leadership
Between thoughts on where humanity is heading and how could we possibly lead and guide its course, we played a short round of the Currency Lab game. There were no group introductions, but I...
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Mini game at Methods for Reclaiming Economy
The publication from Economia: a festival about the economy without the economists is out and it includes a printed version of the Currency Lab. The game was tweaked to fit a limited number of...
Mini version of Currency Lab
The Economia Festival is publishing a magazine and it will feature a simplified (but not at all less fun) version of the board game. Despite its small size, almost all challenges and strategies fit in....
Trading Floor Game
The Money & Society MOOC gathered a group of participants IRL and, among other things, we ran around the room trading playing cards for other cards and – most important – for candy. It...
Faircoin members in Brazil play and rehearse strategies
How can the Currency Lab game help people dealing with concrete tasks in deploying an alternative currency in a local economy? The members of Faircoop’s local node in Ubatuba, Brazil played the game and...
Video of Talk&Play presentation and Q&A
Thanks to the great folks from BerlinGameScene.com, the video of my presentation of the CurrencyLab board game is online. The Q&A afterwards was fun. Some keywords: #Wörgl and #chickens. Also #kisses and #bitcoin. Luckily...
3D Printed Game Pieces & BerlinGameScene
Besides the PDF for the board game and pieces, we are planning to provide also a 3D file for CurrencyLab players to be able to print their own game pieces. The first prototypes for...
Playing Currency Lab at Transmediale 2015
After the presentation of mcd magazine‘s special “Change Money!” issue, we gathered some people to play test the board game. It was really nice to see everybody engaged, and we got some ideas already...
Currency Lab game is out
The first version of our board game is now available for download at Gumroad! It’s a print-yourself file that includes the board, the rules, the challenge and strategy cards, plus a special Fact Book with examples...
Thank you beta testers!
One round took two hours! The first test play of the game exceeded our expectations in many ways. We got some very useful suggestions for optional rules and tweaks that will make the game more interesting. The next step...
