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Glasgow Game

The Glasgow Game is a learning game which encourages an understanding of health and wellbeing in Glasgow, promotes thinking about the complexities and context of the city and helps people consider possible futures for Glasgow. 

It uses intelligence from Understanding Glasgow to describe health, life circumstances and inequality within the city, and has been used by many groups (planners, third sector groups and students in universities and schools) to address strategic issues affecting Glasgow and to formulate transformative responses.  

Image from playing the Glasgow Game. Game banner showing the 12 domains is displayed on wall along with sticky notes written by participants.

The ‘Glasgow Game’ has been developed in collaboration with the International Futures Forum (IFF) and is a version of their World Game, created by Tony Hodgson.

The game, which involves between 20-40 participants, provides a structured way of investigating strategic questions, making use of intelligence from Understanding Glasgow and tapping into the experience and knowledge of participants. 

It has been used to explore several crucial questions for the city such as how Glasgow can address the key challenges around drugs and alcohol; how the food environment in the city can be changed; and, how Glasgow might become a better connected city. 

The Glasgow Game in a box is an offline 'board game' type version of the Glasgow Game available on request from the Glasgow Centre for Population Health. This version of the game will be particularly useful for schools and universities, but also for third sector organisations, community groups and planners.

Glasgow Game box sitting on a table.The game in the box was developed in recognition that in many circumstances it is easier to play the game offline i.e. not being dependent on an internet connection to access Understanding Glasgow.

Inside of the Glasgow Game box. Box has cards and information sheets describing Glasgow's health. The game in the box contains a range of printed resources for playing the the game some of which can be downloaded as pdfs here:

We are keen to further develop the use of Understanding Glasgow data through the Glasgow Game and invite organisations with an issue that could be explored through the game to please contact us.

Note: The indicators on the information node sheets pdf will be updated periodically. It is likely that at times this information will become slightly out of date and more current information may be available on the overview pages for each node e.g. population overview, etc.