people in love at games in tuscany
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People in Love presented at Games in Tuscany October 2014.TRANSCRIPT
People in Love
Pietro Polsinelli
@ppolsinelli
Daniele Giardini
@DanieleGiardini
Presented at Games in Tuscany 2014 – Florence, Italy
Urban design
& quality of life
Urban space is the space where cars go through, the faster the better
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"Smart cities" are
mainly an IBM, Cisco
& Siemens project.
The rhetoric of the
Smart City is entirely
fabricated by
corporations:
there are no citizens
behind it
Urban reformation is today often associated with
the Smart City (pseudo) concept. 5 5
… OR …
… the transformation of space can impact social behavior.
Through the development of green space, libraries, public
parks, and pedestrian friendly streets, Enrique Peñalosa helped
transform Bogota into a public city.
Urban change can be led by people.
Only if people find ways to express their
needs and ideals.
Can we game designers help?
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A great read.
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Tell people: make
them play urban
committees
Introducing the game:
People in Love
Urban design & (un)happyness:
People in Love 14
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The factory problem: good, bad, polluting, clean,
dignified workplace, place of slavery... 16 16
City dump
/
recycling
center
Concrete
open air
sewers
/
swimmable
water canal 17
Beginning gameplay.
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Alpha 3, 4
http://bit.ly/plove4 20
Alpha 5
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My twitter stream is mostly
dedicated to game design:
http://twitter.com/ppolsinelli
A blog on game design
http://designagame.eu