Posts Tagged ‘systems’

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 [...]

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 [...]