Motif: Circular (Eco)Narratives

Stories or frameworks that highlight the principles of a circular economy, focusing on sustainability, resource reuse, and waste reduction. They emphasize the importance of creating systems where materials are continually recycled and regenerated to support long-term ecological balance.
OpenAI, ChatGPT (version GPT-4), 2025, https://www.openai.com/chatgpt.

Stories or frameworks that highlight the principles of a circular economy, focusing on sustainability, resource reuse, and waste reduction. They emphasize the importance of creating systems where materials are continually recycled and regenerated to support long-term ecological balance.
OpenAI, ChatGPT (version GPT-4), 2025, https://www.openai.com/chatgpt.

The Planet Crafter

The Planet Crafter drops you on a dead planet. No oxygen, no water, no food. Just rocks, sand, and a blinking oxygen meter. You are not fighting enemies here. The enemy is the environment. What makes it stand out is how much of the game is about building a livable world from scratch. You start

Ōkami

Ōkami is one of those games that stays with you long after you have played it. You take on the role of Amaterasu, the Japanese sun goddess in the form of a white wolf, and alongside your tiny, loudmouthed companion Issun (who, by the way, gets far too excited whenever he sees a woman), you

No Impact Man

No Impact Man is a 2009 American comic documentary film directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein. It tells the story of Colin Beavan, Michelle Conlin and their daughter after they decide to abandon all aspects of their consumption during a one-year experiment without making any form of net environmental impact. Colin Beavan wants to

Into the Wild

Into the Wild is a biographical movie about the story of Christopher McCandless, a man disconnected from modern society who rejects his conventional life. He is presented as an eco-hero and a symbol of cultural alienation.

WWF Free Rivers

The WWF Free Rivers app is an educational tool that teaches its audience about the effects of a river ecosystem on the environment. By including components such as animal life, river maintenance, rehabilitation, and restoration, the app shows the right and wrongs ways a river can be treated.

Resident Evil Village

Resident Evil Village is a survival horror game, where the 'T-Virus' has resulted in a zombie plague. The game follows an eco-hero, while warning for viruses and bio-organic weapons.

Vestiaire Collective

Vestiaire Collective is an app that lets its users sell second-hand designer and luxury fashion. The app helps spread awareness on how designer clothes are a part of environmental problems such as overproduction and overconsumption of the fashion industry.

Timberborn

Timberborn is a beaver city-building game with a unique architecture system, wooden machinery, dams and water physics. By labelling the game an examples of "lumberpunk" (supported e.g. by the title), Timberborn taps into the current trend of differentiate -punk movements, communicating topicality and a larger world view than just one game.