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Week 140

In Weeknotes on 4 March 2010 tagged Amsterdam, architecture, brainstorms, games, HKU, Layar, lotteries, Trouw, Visible Cities with no comments

Is it march already? Time flies.

I’m on my way to Amsterdam again. Around 10 hours earlier, I was in a train in the opposite direction, coming back from Visible Cities #02. This turned out to be an evening well spent. Some nice examples of AR projects were shown but in particular Ole Bouman of [...]

Cities, Systems, Literacy, Games

In Articles on 23 December 2008 tagged architecture, buildings, cities, everyware, futures, games, literacy, modelling, play, systems, the real-time city, urbanism with 7 comments

If you were asked to improve your own neighbourhood, what would you change? And how would you go about communicating those changes?

Cities are systems, or rather, many systems that interconnect. Like buildings, they can be thought of as having layers, each changing at its own pace. If those layers are loosely coupled, the city [...]

A Playful Stance — My Game Design London 2008 Talk

In Talks on 17 November 2008 tagged architecture, conferences, control, design, emergence, game design, Game Design London, GD, GDL, interaction design, IxD, learning, media, play, Playful 08, playgrounds, presentations, skateboarding, slides, Talks, tools, underspecification with 8 comments

A while ago I was interviewed by Sam Warnaars. He’s researching people’s conference experiences; he asked me what my most favourite and least favourite conference of the past year was. I wish he’d asked me after my trip to Playful ‘08, because it has been by far the best conference experience to date. Why? Because [...]

Reboot 10 Slides and Video

In Talks on 11 September 2008 tagged architecture, arguments, cities, conferences, culture, events, game design, GD, interaction design, IxD, mobile, play, politics, presentations, procedural rhetoric, reboot 10, slides, social, tangible, urbanism, videos with no comments

I am breaking radio-silence for a bit to let you know the slides and video for my Reboot 10 presentation are now available online, in case you’re interested. I presented this talk before at The Web and Beyond, but this time I had a lot more time, and I presented in English. I therefore think [...]

Urban Procedural Rhetorics — Transcript of My TWAB 2008 Talk

In Talks on 27 May 2008 tagged 2008, alternate reality games, architecture, ARGs, cameras, cities, conferences, control, culture, events, everyware, flash mobs, free running, freedom, game design, GD, graffiti, hoaxes, interaction design, IxD, LED throwies, Mario Question Blocks, mobility, physical computing, play, politics, presentations, privacy, procedural rhetoric, Provo, public space, security, September 12, skateboarding, slides, street art, surveillance, Talks, The Web and Beyond 2008: Mobility, TWAB, TWAB 2008, TWAB08, ubicomp, ubiquitous computing, UFOs, urbanism, user experience, UX, Zona Incerta with 21 comments

This is a transcript of my presentation at The Web and Beyond 2008: Mobility in Amsterdam on 22 May. Since the majority of paying attendees were local I presented in Dutch. However, English appears to be the lingua franca of the internet, so here I offer a translation. I have uploaded the slides to SlideShare [...]

Second Order Design and Play in a Pattern Language

In Articles on 2 March 2008 tagged A Pattern Language, architecture, books, Christopher Alexander, emergence, patterns, play, playgrounds with 2 comments

According to Molly, architects hate Christopher Alexander’s guts. Along with a lot of other interaction designers I happen to think his book A Pattern Language is a wonderful resource. It has some interesting things to say about designing for emergence—or second order design—and also contains some patterns related to play. So following the example of [...]

Tangible — First of Five IA Summit 2007 Themes

In Articles on 20 April 2007 tagged architecture, conferences, Frog Design, IA, IA Summit 2007, industrial design, information architecture, Joshua Prince-Ramus, Michele Tepper, physical, REX, tangible, themes with 5 comments

I’ll be posting a top 5 of the themes I noticed during the past 2007 IA Summit in Las Vegas. It’s a little late maybe, but hopefully still offers some value. Here are the 5 themes. My thoughts on the first one (tangible) are below the list:

Tangible (this post) Social Web of data Strategy Interface design

1. Tangible

The IA community [...]