Playful Struggles
Tallinn, Estonia
2023
co-creation • creativity • game design • problem-solving • design thinking • collaboration • children
A card game to help players solve problems and come up with new ideas, developed for Vivita Estonia in collaboration with Eva Liisa Kubiniyu, Teele Kumm, Kipras Šumskas, and Kaidi Marii Kütt.









Co-designed with children aged 9 to 12, this card game introduces players to the design thinking process and helps them tackle big challenges in playful ways. The box contains a set of 6 creative mindset cards, 42 question cards, 18 bonus cards to create disruption and spark teamwork, and a dice. The game is also intended as a facilitation tool to support creatives of any age in running workshops or developing projects through ideation, brainstorming, planning, or prototype building. Rather than suggesting a fixed set of instructions on how to play, this tool opens up possibilities for different gameplays based on the shared decisions of the players.
Roles & responsibilities
Research & conception
Creative ideation
Design research
Co-design sessions
Project management
Content writing
Photos © Vivita Estonia