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# LGJ Bioregions

Scenario idea and mastering by Raffa and Fredd
- miro board: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lVAO9f8=/
- this note: https://hackmd.io/@BgdHedi8Tl6FAZ7r7lWU4w/SkVbkkt-d
- Recordings:
    - First session: https://lb.bbb.tbm.tudelft.nl/presentation/43747aca9d3b57914e50190eac05e9aa7edfbc0e-1612796048779/video.mp4
    - Second session: https://lb.bbb.tbm.tudelft.nl/presentation/43747aca9d3b57914e50190eac05e9aa7edfbc0e-1613401926740/video.mp4

## Storyline and scenario

![](https://i.imgur.com/3rAUJQh.png)

We played 5 rounds of a scenario that allows some kind of insight about bioregions and economic benefit in bioregional solidarity or competition.

We set up two bioregions, with separate treasures. The common carring capacity is currently stable, around 30 gray unit, and is intended to be endgame if it touches 50.

The Bioregion one has two sides; the western one is divided in two parts, north is characterised by mountains unsuited to be cultivated mechanically. The southern part is a plain mostly dominated by a large portion of land that was chemically farmed and is owned by a company that now farms only a part of it. Is played by AndyS and has a colour purple.
In round four the plain between the hills and Andy's farm has been occupied by settlers that occupy lands to cultivate and survive. When on round 5 they expanded their occupation to unused land of AndyS property he obtained from the government the use of force to send them out. Tension unsuited.
The eastern part of bioregion one has a vast wasteland plain. THere set operations Luka (orange) that has set out to farm in an organig way. 
Water is concentrated near the mountains.
Close to the water Christian set out a spin off his farm, buying a piece of land close to the lakes.

The southern part of the board represents a different bioregion, that is somewere else in the planet. There is a depreciation of value for money from the south to the noth bioregion of 1/3, and viceversa. 

The souther bioregion is a plain traversed by a river.
Both regions have part of their land eroded and impoverished by human activity or desertified that are gray and cost much less.

the following is the legenda of the symbols used on this map. You can notice the occupation of land, a mouvement of "sin terra" that started in the north east of the bioregion north.

![](https://i.imgur.com/RaDBG5m.png)

If any of the region reaches the goal of 10 regenerative land clustered together it can scale up the storing of CO2, diminishing the global gray by 4 units for each round, so this could be a collective goal for the players.

in the southern bioregion two players are farming, Luka, close to the river and Christian, that inherited the veggie farm of Anita and expanded buying the land in between his farm and the river to maintain strategic contact with his water reserves and with the transposrt, provided by the company of Diogo.
Diogo has converted successfully his fleet of trucks to electric powered boats and has set up a import export to try to tackel other bioregional commerce with his region most sought of products.

there is as well a blockchain crypto company played by GiulioQ in the first game that supports crypto applications worldwide and is modelled with a simple distribution law. 

Acting politically in round 4 the players fostered a collaboration between the 2 bio region to obtain a solidarity political climate between them to favour regenerative practices.
THese actions created first a direct intervention by the states that prised with 1W every unit of gray (representing Co2) put back in the soil by regenerative practices, then a regeneration fund, were money from the state is distributed in a reserve and in a fund for bio transport of agriculture products runned by DIogo.


The third intervention was the creation of a green coin by Letti after her investment fund suffered a major setback and she bankrupt. The green coin still has to develop and be adopted at large.

![](https://i.imgur.com/74cVqIu.png)

this is the scheme that represents the functioning of the green coin at the moment we paused the game on round 5.

![](https://i.imgur.com/ZOQsaYR.png)



## What are we learning?

Now that the mechanics of the game are clearer there are some possible considerations that we can make. I would like to ask to the players to add their own in response of the question: 
- "what have I learned and discovered in the game"
- "how it might apply my discovers above to my understanding of the world of tomorrow"

you can fill your answers here below PLEASE!

- Luka
- Blockchain
- Christian
- xxx
- AndyS
- Diogo
- Letti: Great game! It provides a framework to think deeply and interactively about externalities/interconnectedness in systems. My take-away is the possibility of creating new scenarios (or at least projecting them) with dynamic socio-economic agreements at the forefront.
- Anita
- Fredd
- Raffa