ResourCity is a strategic board game that challenges players to build and manage a sustainable city while navigating resource constraints and unexpected crises. Set in a world grappling with energy limitations, players must make critical decisions to ensure their city’s survival and prosperity.
In the (near) future where resources are scarce due to climate issues and overconsumption, countries have started to keep resources to themselves. Supplies into the city are drastically reduced, which is a major problem for a city that relies heavily on imports to meet daily needs.
Playing as citizens of a city, players will explore the interconnectedness of environmental systems as they go about designing their own resilient and self-sustaining city. Collaborate to transform the board by rotating and replacing tiles, and replenish the resource pool by connecting roads, forming farms and planting crops!
However, every action consumes resources, and crises may strike at any time. How can players create a truly resilient city without letting the resource pool run dry?
Brought to LASALLE by the MA Arts and Ecology programme with the McNally School of Fine Arts, this event is open to everyone. Participants must be able to commit to the two-hour game play.
Catherine Loke is a partner in Lander Loke Architects and founding president of The Circle for Human Sustainability (TCHS). She has been a member of the Board of Architects Singapore since 2022, and was 1st vice president of the Singapore Institute of Architects from 2018 to 2020.
In the sustainability space, she is known for questioning the relevance and effectiveness of current strategies, and advocating for a balanced economic system that is not reliant on growth, that enables ecologically responsible behaviour through community empowerment and legislative change. To that end, she worked closely with the designers of TCHS’s board game ResourCity, including writing the design brief and mentoring the game development process.
