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Can a complex site, such as an urban landscape, be better understood through a game? Might this playful preparation be useful for design? In response to such questions, this paper discusses a practical project that structured design-oriented site research as a development, implementation and deployment of a locative mobile game in which designers learn by racing colonies of virtual organisms. The analysis of this experiment demonstrates that this approach can support creativity and provide benefits compatible with goals of ecological design.

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Facilitating communication and cooperation is a challenge for anyone who seeks to achieve change and reform in architecture and other disciplines. This article discusses a project that seeks to overcome this problem through a participatory design process enhanced by mobile gaming. Deployed on smartphones, the project’s custom-built game - PocketPedal - is designed to accompany conventional participatory methods. The toolkit created through this work can be used in design workshops to facilitate communication across habitual divides and to support imagination and creativity. The current iteration of the project applies its methods to the challenge of reforming urban cycling in Melbourne. More specifically, it investigates one of the city’s characteristic and intractable cycling challenges: St Kilda Road.