Posts Tagged ‘cities’

My Year in Cities 2009

In Articles on 7 January 2010 tagged 2009, cities, lists, travel with no comments

Last year was thankfully much lower on travel than previous ones. We’re almost a week into 2010, I know, but I still thought it would be worth posting these.1 Vancouver Saint Augustine Kuala Lumpur London One or more nights were spent in each place. All of these were lovely in their own way, but KL’s [...]

Jane Jacobs and London’s Old Street Area

In Articles on 4 December 2009 tagged books, cities, diversity, jane jacobs, London, old street, quotes, shoreditch, silicon roundabout, startups, the death and life of great american cities, urbanism with 1 comment

I’ve been reading The Death and Life of Great American Cities at a leisurely pace since october or so. (A tempo that seems to suit the book fine. Jacobs makes me want to slow down and see.) I came across this passage during a session with the book this weekend and something about a recent [...]

Buildings and Brains at the Nijmegen Design Platform (NOP)

In Talks on 20 July 2009 tagged behavior, cities, collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, design, events, game design, interaction design, lectures, LUX, Nijmeegs Ontwerp Platform, Nijmegen Design Platform, nop, perception, pervasive games, physical, play, procedural rhetoric, social, Talks, urban, urban games with 1 comment

It’s been a few weeks since I presented at the Nijmegen Design Platform (NOP), but I thought it would still be useful to post a summary of what I talked about here. Update: it took me a while, but the slides that accompanied this talk are now up at SlideShare. A little context: The NOP [...]

Mashing Up the Real-Time City and Urban Games

In Talks on 24 April 2009 tagged biology, cities, culture, evolution, game design, games, gaming, GD, interaction design, IxD, literacy, nature, play, processes, symbiosis, systems, the real-time city, urban, urbanism with 4 comments

Yesterday evening I was at the Club of Amsterdam. They host events centred around preferred futures. I was invited to speak at an evening about the future of games.1 I thought I’d share what I talked about with you here. I had ten minutes to get my point across. To be honest, I think I [...]

The Theory and Practice of Urban Game Design

In Articles on 23 January 2009 tagged cities, conceptualisation, DGG, education, game design, HKU, ideation, NLGD, play, seminars, urban games, urbanism, VNA, workshops with 6 comments

A few weeks ago NLGD asked me to help out with an urban games ‘seminar’ that they had commissioned in collaboration with the Dutch Game Garden. A group of around 50 students from two game design courses at the Utrecht School of the Arts1 were asked to design a game for the upcoming Festival 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 [...]

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 [...]