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Games for Cities – The Citizen City Game Jam
What obstacles for game designers arise from the tension between gathering data from citizens and addressing a non-digital but spatially defined audience? This question arose during the Games for Cities game jam held on the 22nd and 23rd of march at the Designhuis in Eindhoven. A collaboration between Games for Cities, Het Nieuwe Instituut through…
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Games for Cities – The Inclusive City Game Talk Show
This post will deal with The Inclusive City Game Talk Show held on the 23rd of November 2016 at Wijk & Co. in Utrecht Overvecht. Like the preceding event in Amsterdam, the talk show was moderated by Utrecht University’s Michiel de Lange and it brought together local and national experts (such as municipal workers or…
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Games for Cities – The Inclusive City Game Jam
How do you design useful games for a neighborhood that houses about 170 different nationalities? This question shaped The Inclusive City Game Jam held on the 23rd and 24th of November 2016 in the Stadstuin Klopvaart in the Utrecht neighborhood of Overvecht. Briefed by the municipality of Utrecht, specifically the department in charge of Overvecht…
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Games for Cities – The Circular City Game Jam
How can city games staged in public spaces activate citizens around the theme of the circular economy? That was the central question explored in the Games for Cities training school and game jam that took place October 10-14 in Amsterdam. The event was organized as part of the Games for Cities project, in close cooperation…
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Games for Cities – The Circularity Challenge Talk Show
What are the opportunities and complications of a match between city challenges and game designers? How can policy officers or ‘problem owners’ cooperate with game designers to put a specific issue, problem or contribution to a public good ‘on the map’, and in turn how can game designers best pick up these kind of requests?…
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“Binnen de lijnen” – een publiek kunstproject over de publieke ruimte en publieke zaak in de Haagse Schilderswijk
Op een zonnige woensdag op 1 oktober 2014 verzamelt zich in de vroege middag een groeiend aantal kinderen en hun ouders en begeleiders op het Oranjeplein aan de rand van de Haagse Schilderswijk. Zij staan klaar om samen te werken aan een kleurrijk publiek kunstwerk. Dit kunstwerk wil het thema publieke ruimte zichtbaar en bespreekbaar…
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How games are playing us – Eric Gordon on civic gaming
Many governments have over the last few years taken an interest in the use of games and playful strategies for interacting with – or even ‘empowering’ – their citizens. “How can we use games for civic purposes?” is the main research question for designers working in this context. When Eric Gordon visited Amsterdam for a…
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Athens Hackable Metropolis – workshop report
Invited by prof. Dimitris Charitos from the New Technologies Laboratory in Communication, Education and the Mass Media, Faculty of Communication and Mass Media, in the School of Economics and Political Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, we ran a three-day workshop in Athens as part of our research into Hackable Cities. Post…
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“Smart City is opportunity to change the ‘defaults’ in our society” Report Meeting of the Minds Amsterdam
Last December, more than 150 professionals came together in an event organised by the city of Amsterdam, Cisco and Meeting of the Minds to debate on the trends of smart city development. One of the highlights was the vision on the development of smart cities presented by Maarten Hajer, director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment…
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Exhibition review. PolakvanBekkum’s GPS Art: from a documentary to an artistic medium
Last week I visited the exhibition Move Still Move at Rento Brattinga Galerie in Amsterdam, an intriguing exploration of gps technology as an artistic medium by the artist duoPolakvanBekkum.
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Report workshop day2 “Made By Us: using smart technologies to repurpose industrial heritage”
Report workshop day 2 “Made By Us: using smart technologies to repurpose industrial heritage” Under the motto better late than never, the second part of the “Made By Us” Beijing Design Week workshop report. As part of the overarching project Made By Us, The New Institute and The Mobile City in collaboration with CMoDA have organized…
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Smart City World Congress Report
Last week we joined the Smart City world congress in Barcelona, a three-day event bringing together representatives of city governments, technology companies and academia with a common interest in the ways Smart Cities change the world. As the biggest organisation in the field of Smart Cities, the event was largely dominated by representatives of major…