CAPTRS 2025: AMR Knowledge Space Game
CAPTRS, the Center for Advanced Preparedness and Threat Response Simulation, has developed a tabletop card game where "players imagine they are in a future world, depicted as a black, empty space, symbolizing the international community’s failure to halt the AMR crisis. Players must travel back in time to the present and 'recolor' the world, with the goal of earning color points by addressing various AMR challenges and creating shared, multi-disciplinary knowledge spaces."
The game focuses on the need to build "a collaborative, transdisciplinary approach" to AMR, where expert knowledge "remains fragmented across disciplines.…
"The game allows players to gather and integrate multi-disciplinary and geographically distributed knowledge pertaining to specific AMR challenges, fostering a deeper understanding of the AMR problem and potential solutions. The game can be used to support evidence-based policymaking and inspire behavioral change at all levels.…
"In the game, players are assigned challenges related to specific aspects of AMR. Their goal is to collaboratively map the problem space and develop future scenarios using their collective expertise. This process enables players to engage in cross-disciplinary discussions, gaining insights from experts in other fields. By the end of the game, players must reach a consensus on their map of the problem space....
"The game is highly flexible, scalable, and adaptable… [and] can be tailored to explore:
- Different scales of the problem (e.g., international, national, subnational, or local)
- Specific areas of AMR (e.g., food, diagnostics, vaccination, National Action Plans, etc.)
- The problem space, the solution space, or both
- Focus areas related to the depth or breadth of the AMR issue
- Multiple game modes – allowing for play in-person, distributed, or fully digital play.
- Modular – customizable based on objectives, players expertise, and constraints.
- Iterative – building upon itself over time as more players add their knowledge.
- Transdisciplinary – created based on knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation techniques, and foresight structured analytical techniques."