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Food System Collectible Card Game Development started May 23rd, 2025 A Collectible Trading Card Game for Education in Regenerative Food Systems International & urban-regional synchronous development of an Open Educational Resource (OER) and Game for the Creative Commons Open Development began on May 08th 2025Visit Project website for detailed information fsys.ktopia.eu

Walking up our UNESCO world heritage “Bergpark” under Hercules watchful, naked eyes. Walking towards our first Innovation Circle for the State Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment, hosted at the Forest School Kassel – a space dedicated to Education since 1926, surrounded by a forest, much, much older. Entering an agile development sprint, a temporal […]

Grateful and excited to be part of a 6-month agile innovation journey, initiated by the Hessian Ministry for Agriculture and the Environment, Germany. Starting next week at the Forest School in Kassel, I’ll join a small group of selected innovators to co-create impactful solutions with a special focus on regenerative food systems. In just two […]

The Smart Waste Agency Game (The SWAG) has reached its impact goal! April 30th 2025 – André Boeing Educators from diverse backgrounds have started using our narrative approach to explore the themes of waste, recycling, and the Great Circular. Because we developed the game under a Creative Commons license, it’s now being remixed and adapted […]

Epic Education adopts The SWAG. Community for educational Multipliers in Beta Narrative Education and educational Adventures activate Joy, Playfulness and deepen engagement among learners. The German non-profit .org Epic Education adopted our Creative Commons Game “The Smart Waste Agency” in March 2025 To support our educational products of Pen & Paper and Live Action Roleplaying […]

ktopia joins Conscious Food Systems Alliance CoFSA convened by UNDP March, 6th 2025 – written by André Boeing It is with great joy and gratitude that my Ktopia.eu André Boeing application with CoFSA has been reviewed, and I have been welcomed as a new member of the CoFSA Community. I look forward to contributing to […]

Playful Food System Expedition Quests, pragmatic k.limate Utopias and mindful Living Lab Ecotopes for growing joyful Optimisms. Here we have it! A wonderful, clunky sentence and essence of my self treated re-identity design retreat. As I compressed the vision and mission statement, as well as a tiny manifesto into that one clunky sentence, it’s pretty […]

As I researched the possibility space of Smart Waste and Youth Participation for my City Administration client exactly one year ago, I compared different countries and their waste management systems – from statistics to the mindsets and models behind. I also came across another helpful meme from Japan, known for it´s mindful, simple words describing […]

A cloud platform allowing for managing all incomes and expenses of a project. In full transparency (you can even download the csv and analyze). A fiscal host offering it’s non-profit legal structure to receive grants from institutions. There you have it. The SWAG, the Smart Waste Agency Game Product is now fiscally hosted and open […]

From epic fail to great success and the Europe 25 chapter posted January 19th 2025 by André Boeing Looking back into 2024, the back then January has been almost prophetic. “Wasteland – beginning at the end” is the title of my January 11th 2024 post. Before I simplified the complexity of food systems down to […]

May, 1st 2024 Smart Waste Agency A live-action roleplaying game to become involved in the great quest of making the waste system of our city-region smarter. Using a superhero/agent narrative, a gamified open-source online platform, local events and a board-and-card game design challenge, we empower and involve young people into our Smart City / Smart […]

The region around the city exploring the city<>region connection André Boeing – March, 14th 2024 In the region surrounding our city, nestled in a tiny forest village of around 700 inhabitants and surrounded by hundreds of thousands of trees, I found my focus for the past few weeks. The area is filled with trees, large […]

Gameboard Waste Quadrant for the food-system board- and cardgame Waste: the fourth quadrant in the base game board  – after the quadrants “cultivation”, “processing”,“cooking & eating” A quadrant so rich, it deserves an own Gameboard to explore the adventure of smart waste in a circular economy ecology. You can even place an augmented reality Earth […]

“Mottainai” – A significant factor in Japans effective smart waste management system André Boeing – Feb 7th, 2024 While comparing different countries and their waste management systems from statistics to the mindsets and models behind I came across another beautiful, helpful meme from Japan, known for it´s mindful, simple words describing not just a policy […]

Open SourceProduceserved for free dishes & recipes André “Cyberhippie” Boeing organic bites and digital bytes cuisine In the context of food systems, “produce” refers to fresh, unprocessed fruits and vegetables, as well as other plant- and fungi based foods. But here comes the narrative trickster. In conventional terms this page would be about open source […]

in DEutscher Sprache lesen Integrated Smart Food Hubs. Connecting Established Urban Food Movements, Smart City Agendas, and City-Region Food Producers From theory to a proposed small-scale experiment in a living lab by André Boeing  January 30th 2024 The concept of Smart Food Hubs emerges as a pivotal strategy for integrating and optimizing diverse elements of our […]

The first 15-day sprint and three magic tools for the eXPedition January 25th 2024 – André Boeing A magic journal to document the expedition in an artistic way and even spoken word. A Game Map to not get lost in the wide fields of the city region food systems. Magic Quest cards to keep the […]

Creative Card Crafting Crafting additional Cards for the food system board+card game is a fun process. It serves themed card Booster-Packs and Sets for specific purposes. KRITA Open-Source and Free Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone. Download […]

Food Systemthe board & card game free and open-source game for 1-4 players Players explore four distinct and interconnected quadrants of “Food Systems” through Research & Action Quest cards. Players train practical skills in research, creativity, solution design, and presentation, while learning about interconnected food systems both in their region and around the world. Game […]