The Playful City Can play and games
help to make truly
smart cities?
Michiel de Lange
[email protected]
www.themobilecity.nl
Games Research seminar, UU, June 1 2015
Sander Veenhof - Meet Your Stranger
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At stake: playful city as smart city alternative
Historical context: play and the city
Playing the smart city
Closing words
1. At stake: playful city as smart city alternative
Our cities have become “smart”
Smart city critique
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1. What is ‘smart’? Who are supposed to be ‘smart’?
2. What is the underlying notion and ideal vision of the ‘city’?
Urban new media foster logics of consumption, control, capsularization
3. How can citizens participate in smart city making?
Smart city vs. Playful city
Contrasting perspectives of digital tech in the city > why now?
2. Historical context: play and the city
Historical context: play and the city
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themes:
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1. entertainment
2. everyday theater
3. education (Bildung)
4. subversive play
Historical context: play and the city
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themes:
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1. entertainment
2. everyday theater
3. education (Bildung)
4. subversive play
Image&credit:&chrisjohnbeckett&on&Flickr.com
Historical context: play and the city
!
themes:
!
1. entertainment
2. everyday theater
3. education (Bildung)
4. subversive play
merijnoudenampsen.org/2013/03/27/aldo-van-eyck-and-the-city-as-playground/
Historical context: play and the city
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themes:
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1. entertainment
2. everyday theater
3. education (Bildung)
4. subversive play
3. Playing the smart city
Engaging with the planning process
www.baasopzuid.nl
www.engagementgamelab.org/games/participatory-chinatown/
http://oscity.eu!
www.playthecity.nl
Engaging with the city
www.playfulartsfestival.com
www.productofcircumstance.com/portfolio
www.pacmanhattan.com
hideandseek.net/projects/99-tiny-games
www.rezone.eu
Engaging with other people
www.koppelkiek.nl
www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/dot-walk
Engaging with experiences
wearecircumstance.com/as-if-it-were-the-last-time.html
Play as lens for critical reflection on future of smart city
watchdogs.ubi.com/watchdogsgame
4. Closing words
Closing words
1 Smartness: The playful city opens up a
people-centric, heterogeneous view of
“smartness” in using urban new media (e.g.
civic hackers as subversive “cheaters”),
instead of a technologically driven one.
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2 Cityness: The playful city highlights the
importance of creativity and culture in city
life (Huizinga’s argument: play at origin of
culture).
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3 Design: The playful city redefines the roles
and relations, and design processes
involving professionals and citizens.
Program - Product - Use vs. Rules - Setting
- Action.
www.watershed.co.uk/pmstudio/project/shadowing
The Playful City Can play and games
help to make truly
smart cities?
Michiel de Lange
[email protected]
www.themobilecity.nl
Games Research seminar, UU, June 1 2015
Sander +
Veenhof
- Meet Your
3RD, Monobanda
DUS Architects
for Stranger
Rezone