Circular Mining
A complete learning solution — map, applied experience, cards, guide and materials — that a group uses to move through the circular mining chain and decide together.
Real project presented with adapted identity, copy and visual details to preserve client confidentiality.
Main visual artifact — adapted version of a real project.
A mining organization needed to make circular mining clearer, more concrete and more engaging.
The challenge was not simply to explain concepts related to mineral residues and coproducts, but to help people across different functions understand how decisions throughout the value chain can transform materials previously seen as waste into economic, environmental and social value.
The experience needed to connect different stages of the mining chain in one shared view — making challenges, circularity opportunities, decision relationships and trade-offs visible as participants explored how mineral residues could become new sources of value.
An expedition across the chain.
The experience was designed as an expedition. Participants move through an illustrated circular mining territory, encounter challenges across the chain and make decisions to move forward. Instead of receiving the content as a linear presentation, they explore the system, identify opportunities and build responses throughout the journey.
Ludicmaps developed a complete learning solution: a large-format visual map, an applied experience, challenge cards, solution and enabler cards, outcomes and indicators, complementary activities, a facilitator guide and application materials. The map works as the central territory the whole experience takes place on.
The experience was designed for guided sessions of approximately 60 to 75 minutes, with small groups gathered around the map. Participants first explore the territory and build a shared understanding of the subject. They then work through challenges across the chain, combine solutions, enablers, outcomes and indicators, and defend the logic behind their decisions. Additional activities connect technical concepts with concrete situations, while the map and supporting materials remain the shared reference throughout.
The experience was designed to turn a technical and systemic subject into shared understanding. Rather than treating circularity as a high-level message, the system helps participants see the full chain, discuss choices, understand relationships between decisions and explore how different levers can turn residues into new forms of value.
Delivery formatVisual map · Applied experience · Card system · Facilitator guide · In-person delivery
Circularity stops being a concept when the whole chain begins to see value in what used to be treated as waste.
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