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Moderation conference “A City as Smart as its Citizens”, 24 Oct. 2017, Dutch Design Week/World Design Event
On 24 Oct. 2017, I was the moderator of the conference “A City as Smart as its Citizens”, organized by Het Nieuwe Instituut. The event took place as part of the Dutch Design Week/World Design Event in the former Philips NatLab in Eindhoven. Keynote speakers were Maya Indira Ganesh (Tactical Technology Collective), Usman Haque (Umbrellium), and Drew Hemment (FutureEverything). Also…
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My keynote talk at Data Publics conference Lancaster University, March 31 / April 1 & 2, 2017
Spring 2017 I was invited to give a talk at the wonderful Data Publics event at Lancaster University, March 31 / April 1 & 2, 2017. Thans to the organizers for a great program! Below my keynote talk “Data publics in the smart city” (pdf) 170401-Data-Publics-S
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Games for Cities Conference
City-Gaming holds great potential in addressing 21st century issues and in the Games for Cities project researchers and designers explore the role of gaming for complex urban issues. The project consisted of three events in three cities throughout the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Eindhoven and Utrecht), each dealing with a different urban issue (circularity, citizenship, inclusion respectively).…
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Games for Cities – The Citizen City Talk Show
How can games improve the social ties and living conditions of unaddressed audiences in Eindhoven? In a city that is increasingly relying on technology to connect to its citizens, how can those not participating in the tech-craze be reached? This particular topic shaped the talk show held during the Data Studio and Games for Cities…
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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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CFP Workshop Civic Media with Eric Gordon Amsterdam April 19 2017
Call for Participation Workshop: Researching Civic Media: Empowering Citizens or Progressive Fallacy? Amsterdam, April 19th 2017 13:30-17:00 With Eric Gordon; Founding director of Engagement Lab at Emerson College & faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University Goal of the workshop Through the discussion of a number of…
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Call for short papers: academic track “Games for Cities” conference
Academic track at Games for Cities International Conference 20-21 April http://gamesforcities.com/challenges/conference/ The half-day “Games for Cities” Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for Ph.D. students to explore and develop their interdisciplinary research interests at the crossroads between game design, city-making practices, bottom-up participation, and civic media. It takes place immediately before the Games for Cities…
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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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Games for Cities Conference. Rotterdam 20-21 April 2017
At the games for Cities Conference, Policy-makers, regulators, urban designers, smart city experts and architects will learn how city games can be used for more effective and inclusive city-making and urban planning.
