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Archive for April 2010

Week 148

So, the first full week of working in Copenhagen is behind me. I’ve mostly been working from our apartment in Nørrebro. Which is fine for now but I am looking forward to getting out more, and maybe doing some coworking here and there. Wouldn’t want to turn into a real hermit here. Let me have [...]

Links for 2010-04-28

Copenhagen Game Collective – Tryl: Videogame of the Future "a multi-player spell dueling game designed for the physical game controllers. The game lets players sling spells at one another in a game of dexterity and strategy. Using their controller as a wand, players draw fluid, emergent gestures – in their own personal style – to [...]

Links for 2010-04-24

Educational Simulations Products: Real Lives 2010 "You might die as an infant, you might make it to old age. You might be able to marry the person of your dreams, and have a rewarding job, or you could be stuck in poverty." Not sure what to think of this, but is sure is a curious [...]

Week 147

Well, the volcano did mess with my flight. Despite that, I am still writing this from an apartment on Birkegade in CPH, where I’ll be spending the coming 5-6 weeks. Here’s what my workspace looks like: Traveling here took up the whole of wednesday. We went by train; Utrecht to Duisburg, Duisburg to Hamburg, Hamburg [...]

Links for 2010-04-23

russell davies: steal other things "…we're going to encounter a bunch of crappy sorta-games foisted on us. Those rudimentary game schemes are going to be rolled out by everyone with a rewards card, CRM system, loyalty scheme or something that can be plotted on a graph. And they're going to be no fun." I agree [...]

Announcing This Happened – Utrecht #6

Last week we announced the sixth edition of This happened – Utrecht. The program was up on our Dutch site already, here’s the program in English (soon available on our international .org site, too). As always I am very excited about the line-up. Can’t wait to hear what stories these people have to share about [...]

Links for 2010-04-19

A hidden geography " squareglasses blog Good stuff on ways a city can be understood. (tags: Cities Geography Urbanism)

Week 146

Crazy, crazy week I am glad to have survived. But wait, it’s not done yet. Tomorrow (saturday) I’ll be running a workshop in Leidsche Rijn with local young folk, for Cultuur19. The aim is to design a little social game that’ll function as a viral marketing tactic for our upcoming urban games design workshop in [...]

Links for 2010-04-10

cityofsound: Design. Architecture. Football. Dan Hill on what football can tell us about the role of improvisation in design and architecture. (tags: Design Architecture Football Games Play Improvisation Adaptation)

Links for 2010-04-09

Jaron Lanier – You Are Not A Gadget – RSA – Events Incredibly thought-provoking talk by Lanier that challenges many of the assumptions underlying current technoculture. If you're a geek, please watch this and give it some thought. (tags: JaronLanier videos talks technology culture future internet) Why games will take over our lives – CNN.com [...]

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