I designed a board game. It changed how 500+ kids in 12 countries talk to their parents about energy.

I didn’t just make it fun, I made that thing teach. Case in point: the Power of Community, an educational board game I designed from the ground up for the EU-funded DECIDE project.

Here's what that actually looked like:

• 500+ game kits shipped to 28 schools and institutions across 12 countries (from Belgium to South Africa).

• Instructions and materials in nine languages, because "accessible" isn't a buzzword to me, it's a spec.

• Workshops that landed: in Belgium, Greece (twice), and Austria. Reaching kids, teens, and grandparents alike. One professor called it the easiest way he'd ever seen to get "pupils to grandparents" talking about collective energy action.

• A full human-centred design process: empathise, define, ideate, prototype, test. I’m not here to guess what works. I test it, break it, and rebuild it until it does.

• Invited to present at the EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) 2022 on the back of this work.

I built a tool that research labs, NGOs, and energy communities used to get children teaching their parents about renewables. I did it while navigating GDPR, ethics boards, and a pandemic that shut +50% our workshops down. It still shipped and it still worked. It still spread to 12 countries on word of mouth and a QR code.

If you're a research institute, NGO, or innovation-led organisation that needs energy literacy, intergenerational learning, or educational games that actually get played (not just funded and forgotten). I've already proven I can build that. Let's build yours.