Biosphere Guardians 2050

Biosphere Guardians 2050 is an exciting tabletop roleplaying game design exchange project for young people themed around biodiversity and climate action.

Participants  based in Kempten (Germany), Trento (Italy), Sligo (Ireland) and from across Wales (UK) worked together to create a vision of the near future where humanity has begun acting as a responsible element in the world. 

In the near future, vast nature reserves have been set up across the world to counteract the climate crisis and let nature return. The Biosphere Guardians are the scientists, rangers and ambassadors protecting and managing these new 'lungs of the Earth'. 

Despite this global positive turn, things do not always go to plan,  surprising new dangers can emerge, and for some people the temptations of old, destructive habits are hard to leave behind... 

The project was for young people from Kempten, Trento, Sligo and Wales aged 16-25 and free of charge. It will ran from Autumn 2022 to Summer 2024, with regular local meetings and online meetings, special events, as well as a number of trips. Participants had opportunities to play and socialise with peers from across Europe, discuss important issues with experts from many fields and engage actively and creatively in game design. 

For general enquiries and Kempten information please email Barney at locoludus@gmail.com 

For Trento information please email Kerstin at kerstin.oschmann@incoweb.org and Patricia at patricia.dragan@incoweb.org 

For Sligo information please email Wayne at boriadus@gmail.com

For Wales information please email Tom at tom@playframe.co.uk

A game book co-authored by all participants will be published in late 2024.

Biosphere Guardians 2050 is supported by: Fonds Soziokultur, Stadt Kempten and Stadtjugendring Kempten (Germany); Associazione InCo - Interculturalità e Comunicazione and Erasmus+ (EU/Italy); Arts Active, Taith, Wales Arts International and Books Council Wales (Wales); and Sligo County Council (Ireland).

Key Art Illustrations by Wayne O'Connor.

See our previous TTRPG exchange project Trickster's Net.