Call for Partnerships – fsysgame Cooking Transformer Expansion
Call for Partnerships. For the fresh development start of our food‑system cooking‑transformer game expansion we are scouting for potential partners. Cooking techniques, nutrition, and planetary health are the next three value sets we are passionate about translating into an engaging, open, collective card game for fun, real‑world action and education.
Agroecology principles, multi-fun-ctional landscape themes, and the Sustainable Development Goals build the three value sets we have explored in our collaboration with the Alliance Biodiversity International & CIAT, and our recently Open‑Access published Food Heroes Expansion Set.
Now we want to focus on the delicious part and the culinary art of food‑system transformation and expand our 60‑card collection with another analogue 60‑plus‑card set, including comics, digital add‑ons, and facilitator guides centered around cooking, nutrition, and planetary health for schools, homes, and clubs.
For this fresh development quest we are currently scouting the potential “mycelium network” of science, game‑design, education, and funding partners. If you resonate or might know/tag fitting connections, we are happy to get to know you and explore our possibility space.
hello@fsysgame.org
“Can a card game change how children think about food – and how they eat?”
Researchers from the Alliance and partners are testing fsysgame / Food Heroes in 37 Kenyan schools to explore how a comic and card game can help children understand food systems, biodiversity, and nutrition while inspiring real-world action. Story published on Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT:
https://alliancebioversityciat.org/stories/card-game-transform-children-food-systems
“Culturalizing sustainability” Viewpoint published in Nature Sustainability including ktopias “playful encounters on sustainable action”
“Policy-makers and scientists dominate high-level sustainability debates but any decision that follows has consequences for ordinary people in their local communities and environments. We asked experts to reflect on the importance of embracing a culturally informed, bottom-up approach to the sustainability discourse and action.”
I am grateful and honored to have taken part in the collective co‑creation of this viewpoint and weaving “Solid Science for Serious Fun”, our Storybilities, Playabilities and Sustainabilities into the multi-perspective viewpoint.
Publication in Nature Sustainablity July 2026:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-026-01898-5
Open Access read only Link:
Werlen, B., Jacobs, G., McBean, G. et al. Culturalizing sustainability. Nat Sustain (2026).
Playing at the National Agroecology Symposium, Kenya
Are you planning to participate in the 🪴 🌴 🦋 🐝 3rd National Agroecology Symposium 🌾 🍉 🫚 🎈 tomorrow, Wednesday 22, and Thursday 23 July in Nairobi, Kenya?
Together with WingFarm and ISFAA Kenya, we from the CGIAR Multifunctional Landscapes at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT have organised a Youth in Agroecology Action lab. In the session, we will introduce our FoodHeroes comic and game that we co-developed with fsysgame.org and The Grass Company Limited in collaboration with DRYLANDS NATURAL RESOURCES CENTRE (DNRC) and Community Sustainable Agriculture and Healthy Environmental Program (CSHEP).
✅ Play interactive games & learn
✅ Engage in powerful dialogues
✅ Co-create real agroecological solutions
✅ Build networks, make commitments & take action!
Find out more about our Food Heroes educational package here:
https://www.fsysgame.org/food-heroes-expansion/
Food Heroes Comic published in Science Pub Database by CGIAR.org
A Comic in a library of high level science publications? Our collaborative “Food Heroes Comic: Growing great food, seeds, trees & knowledge. No. 1. CGIAR Science Program on Multifunctional Landscapes” has been published as an Open Access Resource by CGIAR.org last month. The first Print edition is going around schools and we heard, that quite some Scientists were trying to get their hands on copies in the CGIAR centres as well 😉
Its a wonderful, gratifying feeling to witness Art, comic- and cardgame pop culture, 2050 Future Now themes in Tandem with the Science of Agroecology, integrated, synergistic, Multifunctional Landscapes and the Sustainable Development Goals. It sure makes Education for students AND teachers more exciting, immersed and joyful as well.
Thank you so much for the iterative, collaborative comic- and gamedesign development quest + shared fruits’n seeds, we are discovering together since February, Lisa Elena Fuchs Samantha Waki Bela Sharma CGIAR Multifunctional Landscapes The Grass Company Limited fsysgame.org
And thank you, Benno Werlen The Jena Declaration and UNESCO Chair on Global Understanding for Sustainability for the partnership on joyful, playful pathways to learn to understand our Sustain Abilities and practice them in our daily life.
Free to download here:
Coopetetive Gameplay from DIY Print now available as Digital Browser Game
Our Gameplay from the Do-it-Yourself Print version as an online Player vs AI “coopetetive duel game” (same rules ) is live. Reinforcing knowledge from all Agroecology-, Multifunctional Landscapes and Sustainable Development Goal sets require SIRSS ! : smart icon recognition strategy skills to match all challenge icons.
Card Explorer Launched
From idea to done and run of the “fsys Card-Explorer App” in 2.5 hours good vibe coding. With Claude? NOPE! :: Open-Source, running on my Laptop without subscription and token limits.
Explore Cards and launch the Browser App:
fsysgame.org/card-explorer
“making of” recipe:
– Open-Source ZED 1.0 Code Editor:
https://zed.dev/
– and the already built in Open Code, Zen/Big Pickle Coding Agent from:
https://opencode.ai/
We used react.js to achieve our goals.
Click on single Agroecology, Multifunctional Landscapes and Sustainable Development Goal Icons to explore, which cards feature the icon and how the cards are connected through other shared icons. A click on the card tells you, what is is about. You can choose multiple icons to display cards, which contain them. Enjoy 🙂
fsysgame MFL Kenya Series DIY Kit published
The CGIAR Multifunctional Landscapes program, together with the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, is proud to introduce the Food Heroes Expansion — a free, printable card game designed for schools, clubs, and homes, bringing food system science to life for young people everywhere 🌍
Every card is an action. Save seeds 🌾. Build compost ♻️. Restore biodiversity 🐝. Shorten food chains 🚜. Advocate for your land 📣. Players don’t just learn the concepts they practice them in the real world.
✅ 60 CGIAR Multifunctional Landscapes Kenya Series collectible cards (Food Heroes Expansion + Mapping) with realworld impACT missions to play ✅ Agroecology-, Multifunctional Landscaping- and Sustain Abilities Sheet for strategic play ✅ The “FutureNow” Comic: A tool for both agroecology education and English language learning ✅ A unique “Coopetitive” game for solving global food system challenges in 3 rounds (= 3 project years)
I am sooo excited, proud and grateful, what we all have co-created and literally brought to the home, school and club table. Free like seeds to plant’n play in your community. Happy crafting and playing! 🙂
infos and downloads:
https://en.fsysgame.org/diy-kit.html
The fsysgame Food Heroes Expansion was developed in cooperation with the Multifunctional Schools Network in Kenya, established with CSHEP and DNRC in Kiambu, Kajiado, and Makueni Counties, under the CGIAR Science Program on Multifunctional Landscapes, led by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, in collaboration with The Grass Company, Nairobi and fsysgame.org
Smart Waste Agency Game Box released
Yeahh 🙂 Our co-created Tabletop Game has been just released as a Box Version and is now available for Schools for playful integration into Waste, Recycling and Circular Economy education.
Official announcement, City of Kassel, Germany:
https://www.kassel.de/pressemitteilungen/april/smartwasteagency.php
Game Website in German:
https://swa.futurespace.org/
English Website and Materials:
https://www.the-swag.eu/