Climate Club (Cape Town)

Empowering Climate Resilience through Interactive Storytelling

Quick overview

Client

The Atlantic Council's Climate Resilience Center (Arsht-Rock)

Industry

NPO

Service

Other

Sea Monster helped bring critical climate education to Cape Town

Sea Monster partnered with the Atlantic Council's Climate Resilience Center to create the first prototype of a global climate education initiative to teach essential climate adaptation skills through choose-your-own-adventure storytelling.

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The challenge

Create a tool to make climate education accessible to local underserved communities

As part of the "1 Billion Resilient" project - pledging to reach 1 billion people with climate resilience solutions by 2030 - we were tasked with conceptuaising and designing a climate resilience education tool that would deliver accessible climate education to Cape Town teenagers in underserved communities as the primary audience.As the first chapter to a much larger initiative, this project was also intended to serve a much broader goal: to create a scalable template for global climate education which could empower local creative agencies worldwide to adapt content for their regions to deliver culturally relevant climate education whilst generating work opportunities in the creative indsustries.

The solution

Chat, choose, and learn

We developed a text-first web application that packages key information on relavent Cape Town climate scenarios including heat waves and mountain fires, for users to engage with through a chatbot interface, familiar to teenage users. Accessible via short URL, the interactive choose-your-own-adventure storytelling format was designed to function on low-end devices with limited data consumption to be as accessible as possible. The platform includes optional image loading for data conservation, AI-generated music and carefully crafted AI-assisted artwork.Beyond the user experience, the project establishes a comprehensive framework including brand identity guidelines, narrative structure templates, and scalable development processes designed for licensing to creative studios globally, enabling them to create regionally relevant climate education content while maintaining consistent quality and approach.