Young Conscience’s ‘Story of Identity’ Board Game Design Workshop

📍 Ankara - June 12-13, 2025

As Genç Vicdan Komisyonu, we held an intensive two-day workshop to design a unique board game aiming to foster empathy and address identity-based biases.

Throughout the workshop, we discussed the different identities in Türkiye, explored both visible and invisible forms of othering, and examined personal life stories. Each participant stepped into different identities to create characters. Through these characters, participants built personal stories, developing empathy while highlighting the social advantages and disadvantages linked to various identities.

At the end of this creative and collaborative process, we produced the first draft of an empathy-based board game. In the game, each player adopts a different identity and shares that character’s life story. Other players listen and try to guess which identity is being described. The game encourages participants to question biases, understand identity diversity, and build empathy.

Shaped by the contributions of all participants, this game design aims to foster empathy, dialogue, and social awareness among people from diverse identities. With this work, a new door has opened to better understand different identities and to reflect on empathy.

🎲 This journey has only just begun...