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Posts Tagged ‘urban games’

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 [...]

What I’m Doing at the Festival of Games

In Articles on 14 May 2009 tagged alternate reality games, ARGs, conferences, events, game design, games, play, urban games with 4 comments

I’ve helped out with the program of this year’s NLGD Festival of Games. If you’re into gaming’s fringe phenomena, then this edition is not to be missed. The conference’s theme is “play global, global play” and will celebrate the impact of gaming beyond the screen. I curated several sessions focused on urban games and alternate [...]

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 [...]