Games for Cities

Description

In the Games for Cities Training School, participants explored the design of playful installations and urban games in public spaces as a means of 'citizen empowerment'. In particular, participants investigated how play and games can be used to engage and activate citizens around the advent of a 'circular economy', with a focus on the flows of food and waste.

In this training school, participants explored the affordances of city games in urban public space and deployed these to the theme of the circular economy, with a focus on the flows of food and waste, taking in consideration how can urban games in public space activate citizens around this theme.

During five days' programme, participants worked in small interdisciplinary teams towards the design of a prototype for a city game that is to take place in the urban public space in Amsterdam. The programme included lectures from and discussions with city game designers and leading researchers in this field.

Period	10 Oct 2016 → 14 Oct 2016
Event type	Course
Location	Amsterdam, NetherlandsShow on map