[spectre] Games and architecture

[Mathias]

Announcing PLAYING THE URBAN, 31 March 2007, De Balie Amsterdam

MOBILE LEARNING GAME KIT
// Jan Simons (Associate Professor New Media Studies, University of
Amsterdam)
PLASTICITY: A GAME FOR URBAN PLANNING
// Mathias Fuchs (Senior Lecturer, Programme Leader in Creative Games,
University of Salford) and Steve Manthorp (Special Project Manager,
Bradford)
This presentation introduces a recently developed game for urban planning.
The game, based on the architectonic visions and challenges of British
architect Will Alsop is demonstrated, its features are explained, and a
variety of planning processes, strategies and problems are shown in detail.
LOGO PARC
// (Daniël van der Velden, Katja Gretzinger, Matthijs van Leeuwen, Matteo
Poli, Gon Zifroni)
Logo Parc is a research project on design and publicspace, carried out at
the Jan van Eyck Academy,

Maaike Lauwaert
University of Maastricht
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,Department Of History
P.O. Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht

M.lauwaert at history.unimaas.nl

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Mediastudies-fgw at uva.nl
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