Gaming the system: board games, climate, and radical politics
Join us for an action-packed session of Dawn, the simpler and shorter version of the award-winning climate change board game Daybreak, with its co-creator Matteo Menapace.
You're in charge: play as world powers (US, China, Europe, or the Majority World) and build combinations of cards to both decarbonise the global economy, and to protect everyone from the growing impacts of climate breakdown.
Team up to win: Dawn is a cooperative game, so you’ll work together to build a radically different, sustainable future. It's practice for real-world collective action on a planetary scale.
Serious fun: this is more than a game, it's a safe space to imagine how we can actually fix things together.
Dawn has not been released yet, so you’ll be among the first to try it out!
Meet our workshop facilitators
Miqdad Asaria is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Policy at LSE. His teaching and research focuses on health equity and climate change. He uses board games and game design extensively in his teaching and was awarded the outstanding teacher of the year award at LSE in 2025.
Matteo Menapace is best known as the co-designer of the critically acclaimed Daybreak, a cooperative board game about stopping climate breakdown. Matteo designs and delivers bespoke "serious" games, ranging from playful policy simulations for strategic planning, to gamified consultation processes for stakeholders engagement.
More about this event
This event is part of the LSE Festival: How to save the planet running from Monday 15 to Saturday 20 June 2026. This year's Festival explores how existential threats including the climate crisis, conflict and AI are affecting all parts of the world, transforming the way and where we live, and how our societies function. With a series of events asking what can we be doing to save the Earth, its people and environment? Booking for all Festival events will open on Monday 18 May.
The Department of Health Policy trains and inspires people passionate about health by advancing and challenging their understanding of health systems and the social, economic and political contexts in which they operate.
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