2021
Thibault, Mattia; Buruk, Oğuz; Hassan, Lobna; Hamari, Juho
Anagenesis: A Framework for Gameful, Playful and Democratic Future Smart Cities
In: Vesa, Mikko (Ed.): Organizational Gamification: Theories and Practices of Ludified Work in Late Modernity, pp. 201-229, Taylor & Francis, 2021, ISBN: 9780367321185.
Book chapter
Abstract | Tags: Augmented cities technologies, DIY urbanism, E-participation, Gamification, Smart city, Urban play
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abstract = {This chapter aims to go beyond extant gameful and playful approaches of urban management and governance by identifying the benefits and detriments in current approaches as well as elevating those benefits into a combined juxtaposed future vision of a playfully co-created city, Anagenesis. We ground our framework in the foundation laid out by three separate gameful phenomena: gamified e-participation, urban play initiatives (such as parkour or DIY urbanism) and games based on augmented cities technologies. We argue that while these separate phenomena all have their benefits and detriments, in democratic, playful and technologically enhanced activities organization, in meaningful combination, they provide an efficient and ethical way of engaging citizens in decisions regarding city-making and urban design.},
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This chapter aims to go beyond extant gameful and playful approaches of urban management and governance by identifying the benefits and detriments in current approaches as well as elevating those benefits into a combined juxtaposed future vision of a playfully co-created city, Anagenesis. We ground our framework in the foundation laid out by three separate gameful phenomena: gamified e-participation, urban play initiatives (such as parkour or DIY urbanism) and games based on augmented cities technologies. We argue that while these separate phenomena all have their benefits and detriments, in democratic, playful and technologically enhanced activities organization, in meaningful combination, they provide an efficient and ethical way of engaging citizens in decisions regarding city-making and urban design.
2020
Leorke, Dale; Owens, Marcus
Introduction: Connecting Games, Play and Urban Discourse
In: Leorke, Dale; Owens, Marcus (Ed.): Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City, pp. 1-26, Routledge, 2020, ISBN: 978-0-367-44123-4.
Book chapter
Links | Tags: Creative cities, Game studies, Resilience, Smart city, Sustainability, Urban policy, Urban studies
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Nansen, Bjørn; Apperley, Thomas H.
The Postdigital Playground: Children's Public Play Spaces in the Smart City
In: Leorke, Dale; Owens, Marcus (Ed.): Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City, pp. 116-132, Routledge, 2020, ISBN: 978-0-367-44123-4.
Book chapter Open access
Abstract | Links | Tags: Augmented reality, Children, Mobile media, Playgrounds, Postdigital play, Public space, Smart city
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relation to the broader impact that the smart city has on the uses of public space.
This chapter explores this ongoing integration of playgrounds into the smart city through two recent examples of interactive play designs that digitally augment public playgrounds and parks: HybridPlay, and Disney Fairy TrailTrails. These examples of postdigital play in public playgrounds are analysed in terms of their functionality, representation, and online reception. Operating within along a broader trajectory of smart city infrastructures characterised by the blurring of discrete spaces of sociality, these examples of postdigital play highlight tensions associated with the cultural sensibilities and historical meanings attached to public play spaces, digital technologies, and childhood.},
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relation to the broader impact that the smart city has on the uses of public space.
This chapter explores this ongoing integration of playgrounds into the smart city through two recent examples of interactive play designs that digitally augment public playgrounds and parks: HybridPlay, and Disney Fairy TrailTrails. These examples of postdigital play in public playgrounds are analysed in terms of their functionality, representation, and online reception. Operating within along a broader trajectory of smart city infrastructures characterised by the blurring of discrete spaces of sociality, these examples of postdigital play highlight tensions associated with the cultural sensibilities and historical meanings attached to public play spaces, digital technologies, and childhood.
relation to the broader impact that the smart city has on the uses of public space.
This chapter explores this ongoing integration of playgrounds into the smart city through two recent examples of interactive play designs that digitally augment public playgrounds and parks: HybridPlay, and Disney Fairy TrailTrails. These examples of postdigital play in public playgrounds are analysed in terms of their functionality, representation, and online reception. Operating within along a broader trajectory of smart city infrastructures characterised by the blurring of discrete spaces of sociality, these examples of postdigital play highlight tensions associated with the cultural sensibilities and historical meanings attached to public play spaces, digital technologies, and childhood.
Leorke, Dale; Owens, Marcus
Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City
Routledge, 2020, ISBN: 978-0-367-44123-4.
Book
Abstract | Tags: Creative cities, Game studies, Play, Smart city, Sustainability, Tourism, Urban policy, Urban studies
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2019
Leorke, Dale
Reappropriating, Reconfiguring and Augmenting the Smart City Through Play
In: Nijholt, Anton (Ed.): Making Smart Cities More Playable: Exploring Playable Cities, pp. 51-70, Springer Singapore, 2019, ISBN: 9789811397646.
Book chapter Open access
Abstract | Links | Tags: Civic engagement, Counterplay, Gamification, Play, Playable cities, Psychogeography, Smart city
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2018
Leorke, Dale
Playful Approaches to the Smart City — Is There a Role for Fun and Games?
In: 2018.
Publication for professional or general audience Open access
Links | Tags: Playfulness, Smart city, Urban policy
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Leorke, Dale; Wyatt, Danielle
Public Libraries in the Smart City
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, ISBN: 978-9811328046.
Book
Abstract | Links | Tags: Creative cities, Digitization, Disconnection, Library assessment, Library governance, Library users, Metrics, Neoliberalism, Public culture, Public libraries, Regional and rural libraries, Smart city, Social policy, Third space, Urban policy
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Provides the first critical accounts of the relationship between libraries and urban planning policy.
Re-orientates smart city scholarship from the bottom-up, illustrating how smart city agendas play out in an everyday space at the interface between government and community.
Offers a very immediate view of the current state of libraries by drawing upon interviews with a range of library professionals and policymakers conducted between 2015-2017.},
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Contextualizes the library within the physical space of the city, and within the broader policy strategies and governmental narratives shaping contemporary urban development.
Draws upon detailed ethnographic research with library staff and policymakers across contrasting urban and regional cities in Victoria, and across different municipalities in Melbourne and Singapore.
Provides the first critical accounts of the relationship between libraries and urban planning policy.
Re-orientates smart city scholarship from the bottom-up, illustrating how smart city agendas play out in an everyday space at the interface between government and community.
Offers a very immediate view of the current state of libraries by drawing upon interviews with a range of library professionals and policymakers conducted between 2015-2017.
Draws upon detailed ethnographic research with library staff and policymakers across contrasting urban and regional cities in Victoria, and across different municipalities in Melbourne and Singapore.
Provides the first critical accounts of the relationship between libraries and urban planning policy.
Re-orientates smart city scholarship from the bottom-up, illustrating how smart city agendas play out in an everyday space at the interface between government and community.
Offers a very immediate view of the current state of libraries by drawing upon interviews with a range of library professionals and policymakers conducted between 2015-2017.