MAGE – Morecambe Area Gaming Environment

MAGE is a portable playboard for future coastal change, immersing the public in nature-based decisions and solutions with real-time feedback. MAGE aims to bridge rigorous coastal forecasting with co-designed scenarios and to allow the public to interact through their choices of a range of nature-based solutions. MAGE is a digital sandbox to foster positive management practices, explain coastal change, and help with considerations for nature recovery. Developed by Paul Cureton and Lancaster researchers Rob Delaney, Runze Xia, Qianhui Lin, with external partners Luigi Mussardo and Elliot Hartley.

MAGE Digital sandbox, is one of three outputs, funded by Our Future Coast.

MAGE Outputs include:

1. Map.Social – MAGE
2. MAGE – Tabletop Game
3. MAGE Digital Sandbox

This project is funded by Defra as part of the £150 million Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Programme which is managed by the Environment Agency to develop and test new approaches to resilience tailored to local communities.