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What the Hubbub Is

In Articles on 28 October 2009 tagged design, games, Hubbub, pervasive games, physical, play, public space, social, urban games with no comments

There’s some movement over at the website for my new venture. I mentioned Hubbub before: it is a design studio I am setting up for physical, social games that are played in public places. We hope to address social issues and the like using these games.

Recently…

I’ve adjusted the temporary site to fit with the brand [...]

Work Now So You Can Play Later

In Articles on 12 August 2009 tagged art, data visualization, design, elsewhere, events, exhibitions, game design, games, Hubbub, interaction design, Leapfrog, opera, pervasive games, play, theatre, This happened – Utrecht, urban games with 3 comments

There’s a lot going on at the Leapfrog studio, which explains at least in part why things have gone quiet around here. However, I wanted to take the time to alert you to some upcoming events that might be of interest.

An urban game in the Rotterdam city center

On Sunday September 27 around 50 young people [...]

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 run [...]

This Pervasive Games Workshop I Ran at This Conference

In Articles on 10 July 2009 tagged conferences, FoG09, game design, NLGD Festival of Games 2009, pervasive games, physical, play, playtesting, prototyping, social, tinkering, workshops with 2 comments

A few things I got people to do at this year’s NLGD Festival of Games:

Fight each other with paper swords…

…and run around with lunch-boxes on their heads.1

This was all part of a workshop I ran, titled ‘Playful Tinkering’. The mysterious Mink ette — who amongst many things is a designer at Six to Start — [...]