Mine-o-Polis

Mine-o-Polis is an alternative board game created by Beyond Extraction that invites players to explore Toronto as a centre of extractive power. Play as a junior mining firm seeking to stake, extract, lobby, and accumulate its way to extractive success from the mines to the markets. Unearthing Toronto’s role as a global capital of mining finance, Mine-o-Polis invites players to participate in extractive practices to raise to the surface how capital flows, how extraction is valued, and who benefits or is harmed by these processes. Play extraction against extraction.

This spring and summer, we’re inviting the Beyond Extraction community to playtest the pilot version of Mine-o-Polis and discuss the ways extractive politics can be made visible and resisted through the power of play. If you’re interested in organizing, or joining, a session, please contact us.

For more on games and play as activism, consult our open and growing resource list: Games, readings, and tools for play as activism