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City Activation Game is a board game to transform a public space in your city!

City Activation Game is a board game that guides players in creating an action plan to transform the city by focusing on active citizenship in the use, appropriation, and management of public spaces.

The game was born out of the need to translate complex concepts, share knowledge, and bring different actors or groups together around a table to co-create projects in a playful and participator...

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City Activation Game is a board game that guides players in creating an action plan to transform the city by focusing on active citizensh...

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R$13,650 per new project
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To access funding

  • Complete a 30 Day Challenge
  • Report the impact of your project
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City Activation Game stimulates a group of people to organize and think about stages of diagnosis, knowledge, and engagement to carry out an urban transformation that unleashes the maximum potential of the space and the neighborhood! It was great ...

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City Activation Game
Leticia Sabino - Director of Instituto Caminhabilidade

How to start a project on ChangeX

  • 1

    Create your project page

    Click the green start button to register and set up your project page. It’s quick, free and easy.

  • 2

    Complete a 30 Day Challenge

    Complete simple steps in 30 days to start your project and access funding.

  • 3

    Activate your project

    Follow the 5 Step Guide and your action plan to bring the project to life.

  • 4

    Share impact

    Share an impact summary to access the remaining funding and continue your project.

Great for

  • Enthusiastic people who want to transform their neighborhood
  • People who enjoy community mobilization
  • People who want friendlier and more collective cities
  • People who believe that dialogue and learning can be playful

City Activation Game project essentials

5 Step Guide

  • 1. Print the game and learn how to play!
  • 2. Invite people who want to think about projects to transform their surroundings.
  • 3. Play the game!
  • 4. Put your cards into action and transform the space!
  • 5. Keep playing!

Time

Suggested: You will need to dedicate half a day per week for 4 to 6 weeks to get the project up and running in your community.

Resources

More information on how to get started and any resources shared by the City Activation Game

24 City Activation Game projects have already been started

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Meet the Social Innovator

Welcome to the City Activation Game! We believe that everyone has the right to creatively build and intervene in their cities, and we created a board game for that. Gather your neighbors, and in a few hours, create an action plan to build a more democratic, collective, fair, and fun city! Through the game, you will learn about urbanism, community engagement, and various practical tools to transform your neighborhood into what you dream it to be! Let's play?

Karen Martini - Urbanist, Game Designer, and one of the creators of the City Activation Game

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Why a 30 day challenge?

    The 30 Day Challenge was developed by our Team based on our experience working with communities. We’ve learned that the first weeks are critical to build momentum and get off to a good start with any community project. Teams who complete these steps within the first month are much more likely to successfully complete their project!

    The Challenge is a series of simple steps that each applicant has to complete to get their project off the ground and unlock funding, if there is funding currently available for that idea in your region. Steps include watching a video and/or reading content, having a call with a ChangeX team member, forming a team so that you have support, having your first team meeting, sharing a team photo, and sharing a project action plan.

  • What can funding be used for?

    Once funding is received it can be used to cover direct set-up costs of the new community project. For example space rental, insurance fees, seeds and planting materials, tools, training fees; pretty much any materials you might need for a project that benefits your community.

    Funds cannot be used for the costs of work that has already been carried out, costs unrelated to the setup and maintenance of the new project, payments to group members for their work on the project. Funds can’t be used for the promotion of religious causes, non-charitable activities, sponsorship or fundraising events. Please read the terms and conditions for further details.

  • How do I know if there is funding available?

    On idea pages, if there is funding available for the idea in your region you will see “Funding available” and the region listed in the turquoise box. When you first login you will also see a green banner at the top of the screen saying “live funds near you” if there is funding available in your region. The ChangeX homepage will feature those live funds near you.

    A note on the waitlist: when all the funding has been allocated to applicants, new applicants will go on a waitlist. If some applicants that are in the fund don’t successfully complete the 30 Day Challenge their funding will be released and can be then allocated to those on the waitlist. To see if you are going on a waitlist check the main fund page, ideas fully allocated will have the note “Join the waitlist” instead of “Apply to start”.

  • What is ChangeX?

    ChangeX is a platform that connects communities to proven ideas and funding.

    By empowering local changemakers with proven ideas from social innovators and accessible funding from our partners, we aim to build healthier, more inclusive and sustainable communities. Our work is aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and together with our partners, we aim to impact 1 billion people globally by 2030.

    • Communities: Get the funding, resources and support you need to start impactful projects in your community.
    • Social innovators: Connect with local changemakers, access funding to scale your idea, and impact more communities globally.
    • Funders: Fund the themes and regions they care most about, with measurable impact, and at global scale.

    We believe that by bringing the best social innovations and the world’s changemakers together in a shared community, we can accelerate the spread of innovations across the world and have a bigger impact. Together we aim to unleash the potential of changemakers by enabling collaboration, by sharing knowledge and resources, by connecting changemakers across different disciplines and innovations and by opening up access to the world’s best proven social innovations to everyone.

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