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DESIGN FOR IMPACT
Alam Santi designs the tools that help resilience programs reach their intended audience, build engagement and drive action. Outputs include bespoke educational games and campaign strategy to branding and communications for program implementation. Our team has supported everything from individual project branding through to national-level campaigns, translating complex program goals into media and design assets that are clear, compelling, and built to move people to act.
See below for examples of our design and communications work, and let us know how we can support your program's implementation.
Alam Santi, PREDIKT and T4CCE: A Strategic Partnership for Climate Education
Alam Santi has entered a strategic partnership with PREDIKT Consulting & Innovation, a well-recognized, Jakarta-based organization focused on disaster risk reduction and climate change education, and with Teachers for Climate Change Education (or T4CCE). These three organisations recently spent quality time together at the Alam Santi HQ in Bali for a major strategic planning session, working through what a longer-term collaboration between Alam Santi/Ecogames, PREDIKT and T4C
Inside Alam Santi's Research Partnership with BRIN
In May 2024, Alam Santi signed a formal research partnership with BRIN, Indonesia's National Research and Innovation Agency, specifically with its Population Research Centre under the Social Sciences and Humanities research organisation. The partnership centres on a joint study into the effectiveness of innovative education materials for building community resilience to the impacts of climate change, using Ecogames' work as the subject of that research. The agreement followed
How to Use MuZe Cubes in Any Classroom to Build Environmental Agency
A game only works as a teaching tool if a teacher can actually pick it up and use it, whether in a well-resourced classroom in London or Tokyo, or a remote school on a small island in Southeast Asia. At Ecogames, we deliberately design for this kind of versatility, building inclusivity into all of our educational games from the outset. Our MuZe Cubes game is one of the clearest examples of what that looks like in practice. MuZe Cubes is a storytelling tool using image prompts
Nusantara Leads the Way for a New Climate Resilience Curriculum
Something quietly significant happened in Nusantara, Indonesia's new capital city, in 2025. A small team of educators, designers and sustainability practitioners from Alam Santi consulted with teachers in East Kalimantan to design a set of accessible climate education tools. Not abstract lesson plans, not dense policy documents, but real, hands-on classroom resources that a teacher could pick up on a Monday morning and use that same day. The result is the Climate Resilience C
Impact Stories: A Free Storytelling Game Prototype for Teachers Worldwide
One of the questions we keep coming back to at Ecogames is: what happens when a school simply doesn't have the budget to spend on physical games? Impact Stories: Ocean, a browser-based digital adaptation of our MuZe Cubes Ocean Adventure game, is our first working answer to that question. We are openly sharing this early-stage prototype with partners, educators and supporters. How it works The digital version runs entirely in either a desktop or mobile browser: no app downloa
Alam Santi's Partnership with Emmanuel Foundation's Mobile Library
Alam Santi considers Emmanuel Foundation's Innovative Schools Programme (ISP) and Mobile Library Programme (MLP) among the most powerful education programmes operating in Indonesia today. Running for more than twenty-five years, the Foundation delivers what we consider the highest quality teacher training available in the country; the passion, mission and quality of its team are unsurpassed. Here at Alam Santi and Ecogames, we are extremely grateful to be partnering with this
Plastic Island: Ecogames' Engaging Tool for Plastic Pollution Education
Plastic pollution is one of the clearest environmental issues to teach, and one of the hardest to make stick. Ecogames developed Plastic Island, a giant-format game, in collaboration with the Plastic Island (Pulau Plastik) film project and Kopernik, an organisation working on practical solutions for last-mile communities across Indonesia. This dynamic collaborative game and its compendium activity book and facilitator's guides are used in schools and community groups interest
How 30+ Years of Sustainability Work Evolved into Ecogames
After more than three decades working in sustainable development and disaster management across Indonesia, the team at Alam Santi faced an important question: how do you share what you've learned in a way that mainstreams and sticks? Thinking back over the years of hundreds of programs implemented, the answer turned out to be games. Why We Started Ecogames The Alam Santi founding team members have worked across sustainable development and disaster risk reduction (DRR) for ove
The Science Behind Play: Why Games Are Serious Learning Tools
Play looks like the opposite of serious work. Neuroscience tells a different story. Neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp, who founded the field of affective neuroscience, identified play as one of seven primary emotional systems built into the mammalian brain, alongside systems like fear, care and seeking. In his research, play wasn't a distraction from learning; it was one of the brain's core drivers of it, on par with hunger or curiosity. Panksepp's work showed that play activates
Making the SDGs Truly Accessible & Inclusive Through Play
The United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals set out an ambitious roadmap for a more equitable, sustainable world by 2030. They're also dense. For most community outreach and education work, the SDGs tend to stay abstract, serving as a framework that adults reference in policy documents rather than something that children—or even many adults, including community leaders and educators—can connect to their constituents or to their own lives. Alam Santi and Ecogames have
Ecogames Ocean Education Aboard Arka Kinari's Epic Voyage
Arka Kinari is a 70-tonne sailing ship built by artists Filastine and Nova to carry environmental education and music along Indonesia's old maritime trade routes. During its tour through Java, the crew pilot tested games designed by Ecogames, the educational games studio under Alam Santi, that bring ocean and climate education to children in remote coastal communities along the way. The games featured were Operation Ocean, Octoputs and MuZe Cubes, all developed by Alam Santi'
Mental Wellness Games Meet Eco-Anxiety Head On
Environmental change and mental wellness are more connected than they might first appear. As young people grow up more aware of climate change, plastic pollution and biodiversity loss, eco-anxiety has become a real and growing part of how they experience the world. In 2022, Ecogames partnered with The Contentment Foundation to design four pilot games, built around self-awareness, connection and emotional resilience rather than environmental content directly. The Contentment F
Ocean Education in Papua with Biosphere Foundation's Mir Vessel
In March 2022, the crew of Biosphere Foundation's sailing vessel Mir set out on their Coral Triangle Voyages, bringing environmental education to coastal communities around Raja Ampat, Papua. Alongside their own programmes, they used two games designed by Ecogames, Operation Ocean and Alami Seaside, to bring marine conservation learning directly to schools and children along the coastline. Biosphere Foundation, a US-registered non-profit founded in 1991, works on nature stewa
Training Batik Artisans in Branding and Marketing Skills in Tuban
Alam Santi worked with a women's batik artisan group in Tuban, where the traditional art of Batik Tulis, hand-drawn batik, was being revived through a local poverty alleviation programme. It's a good example of the kind of training work Alam Santi does across very different communities and stakeholders: taking a specific, practical skill gap and building a workshop around it. BAZNAS, the national CSR body for Islam in Indonesia, spent a year teaching Tuban batik artists to cr
Market Strategy & Brand Development to Save Forests One Hive at a Time
Alam Santi Media 4 Impact work for Origin Wild Forest Honey - branding honey as a means for rainforest protection.
From Aspiration to Implementation: Three Years of Research for Circles UBI in Bali
What is Circles Bali? Circles is a blockchain-based Universal Basic Income protocol originally developed by Gnosis, a Berlin-founded blockchain organisation whose team spent years building the underlying technology and monetary model behind it, long before it reached Indonesia. Alam Santi's role was to take that existing protocol and answer a much more specific question: could it work for Balinese communities, and if so, how? Over three years, that question took Alam Santi fr
Alam Santi Impact Media and Campaigns: See the Action
Over 3 decades the Alam Santi founders have been delivering communications for behavioural change and sustainable development.
Single Use Plastic : Solved!
Single use plastics are a huge challenge for projects aiming to be eco-conscious. Interested in how you can reduce your plastic use and also raise brand awareness? Alam Santi has the solution. Not only can you reduce much of your plastic products, but with every product used provides visibility for your brand theme and messaging. A great way to showcase your commitment to reducing the earth, land and ocean. STEEL & PYREX STRAWS Even if they used only 1 plastic straw per week,
Bali Asli : Products for Healthy Lifestyles
Alam Santi loves working with local companies which incorporate sustainable practice into their ventures. For Bali Asli it was also about perfecting the art of natural preserves and soap-making. Today, Bali Asli is a common staple in many homes and businesses here in Bali. The company worked with Alam Santi to create their product packaging and marketing materials across more than 40 different products included in this company’s wonderful range of natural products. For Bali A
The Importance of Ecological Literacy
The Alam Santi founding team has been delivering practical programs for public education to communities across Indonesia for decades. Indonesia is home to some of the richest biodiversity in the world, while representing only 1.3% of land surface, and some of its 17,000 islands contain unique ecosystems with endemic species. It is a bright star in the earth's natural heritage. Deforestation and pollution are becoming more and more pressing issues in this beautiful archipelago
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