The Shapership Game
New points of view to shape the Future(s) — every day.
A 100% eclectic vehicle to move from MAD Land to NO MAD Land.
new points of view
The Shapership Game is both a game and a narrative conversation — a poetic, strategic and imaginative journey designed to help you seriously play with your mental maps and live the Future you desire, starting now.
Its core intention is simple yet profound: to help you adopt new points of view to shape your Future(s) — every day.
The Map — MAD Land & NO MAD Land made visible
MAD Land & NO MAD Land, made visible.
At the heart of the Shapership Game lies a giant metaphorical map that makes mental maps visible. From a distance, it reveals two contrasting landscapes, shaped by very different worldviews.
Nine mirrored zones, nine invitations to shift.
Together, they reveal how different mental maps shape different landscapes: from old mindsets to new perceptions, from regression to opening, from preservation to innovation, from more of the same to imagination. Touch the map, or pick a number.
A constellation of points of view.
Within each zone lies a constellation of metaphorical locations. Each location offers a point of view to shape the Future every day: not something right or wrong, but a mental lens brought to life through a poetic image, a short legend and a contrasting counterpart.
Created by Aline Frankfort, artist and imagician, the images give visual form to metaphorical points of view.
three questions
Why this matters.
There is an urgent need for profound transformation in all spheres of life. Yet many of us — even when we know the world we no longer want — seem unable to imagine a viable and desirable Future that is truly different from the Present.
Without bold imagination, we get locked into regression forces: despair, fatalism, anxiety and polarisation. So if we want to build the Future on desire and imagination, the quieter questions are not only « What should we do? » but:
What are the mental maps we are swimming in, when our maps are invisible to us?How do we stop repeating the S.O.S. — Same Old Solutions?How do we shift — consciously and intentionally — from MAD Land to NO MAD Land?
a narrative conversation
What it is.
That insight gave birth to the heart of the Game: a giant metaphorical map that makes our mental maps visible — so we can play seriously with them.
It takes the form of two contrasting metaphorical landscapes, created and sustained by very different mental maps:
- MAD Land — outdated paradigms leading to Massive Assured Destruction
- NO MAD Land — new perspectives leading to Mutually Assisted Development
altitude
What it offers.
By navigating this metaphorical landscape, the Game invites you to:
For solo play, it becomes an engaging practice of perception, imagination and movement.
For teams and communities, it becomes a facilitated Broadmapping journey: a way to adopt the Altitude Attitude, expand perspective, and make wiser choices in uncertainty.
Direction comes from altitude.
Activist of the Future(s)
What it helps you do.
- get out of familiar and usual repertoires of response
- unlock your freedom to reimagine your life and envision forward-looking action
- shift from stuck to unstuck
- assert your agency over your possible Futures.
- challenge routine thinking
- identify and disempower legacy narratives that no longer serve
- imagine and articulate transformative possibilities connected with your preferences, hopes, values, dreams and aspirations
- adopt the Altitude Attitude — a higher vantage point from which you can look at the world as it is and see the world as it could be, in a creative, visionary, heterodox and radical way.
The Game invites you to become an Activist of the Future(s), fully aware of your creative power to act on the Future — here and now.
Near-Life experience
What it gives you.
The Shapership Game invites you to a profound Near-Life experience. Sometimes we do not need to solve a so-called problem.We need to dissolve it — by shifting perspective.
From a new vantage point, the problem changes. Sometimes it disappears. There is nothing standing in the way of your aspirations.
There are no winners or losers here. This is not a game of competition. It is a parable of the inner transformation needed to become an active participant in the creation of a NO MAD Land.