The Smart Waste Agency Game (The SWAG) is an open-source tabletop card game and an adaptable Open Educational Resource. The Game immerses players into the world of waste types, recycling, and “the Circular” – fostering creativity, collaboration, and climate awareness.
Year 1 Summer
Anniversary
Edition
Ktopia / The SWAG is a Project Partner of The Jena Declaration (TJD) at the UNESCO Chair on Global Understanding for Sustainability
The SWA Game was developed in 2024 by a “cooperative for a season” consisting of of 3 City Administration departments including the local waste cleaner corp., 3 non-profit Youth organizations and 63 Children and Teenager. Creative Production and coop facilitation by André Boeing from ktopia.eu. The SWA Project was assigned to Ktopia and funded by the the Smart City Kassel Model Project via the German Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building and the KfW Bank. It has been released as an Open Educational Resource under a Creative Commons license during the Smart Social Regional Conference in December 2024. German Gamesite, Documentation, Partners: https://swa.futurespace.org/ . Initial funding ran until December 2024.
The SWAG is an independent, international branch fork of the initial SWA Game, launched in January 2025 by ktopia.
Waste Problems became Waste Monsters
Each waste type represents a monster type with specific environmental dangers if not recycled
Recycling methods became Smart Multi-Tools
Each Mod installer represents a miniature method of how the specific waste type is usually being recycled
“Waste Maker” became “Smart Waste Agents”
From passive “Waste Producer” to active Smart Waste Agent representing the hands-on response to our global waste challenge
And the “Wastelands” of our City became our game board…
But we are not done yet…
