A Contemporary Way of Playing - Designing Interactive Urban Play for Playful Placemaking

Chew, Louis

doi:10.1145/3393914.3395829

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“…Considering the outcomes of placemaking, we acknowledge that the present and future developments of play in cities indicate a continued necessity to appreciate the effects of technology on the identity and experiences of places. Thus, we focus on playful placemaking (Innocent, 2016;Stokes et al, 2017;Luostarinen, 2019;Chew, 2020)-a variant of placemaking adapted from traditional and contemporary methods outlined by Jacobs (Jacobs, 2016), Whyte (Whyte, 1980), and other influential urbanism organisations such as Gehl 2 and the Project for Public Spaces 3 . Supporting urban liveability, it is a placemaking process involving the public as co-creators of city life by means of playful interactions designed for the built environment.…”

Section: Technology and Playful Placemakingmentioning

confidence: 99%

To Play and To Be Played: Exploring the Design of Urban Machines for Playful Placemaking

Chew

Hespanhol

Loke

2021

Front. Comput. Sci.

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Within the paradigm of the smart and playable city, the urban landscape and street furniture have provided a fertile platform for pragmatic and hedonic goals of urban liveability through technology augmentation. Smart street furniture has grown from being a novelty to become a common sight in metropolitan cities, co-opted for improving the efficiency of services. However, as we consider technologies that are increasingly smarter, with human-like intelligence, we navigate towards uncharted waters when discussing the consequences of their integration with the urban landscape. The implications of a new genre of street furniture embedded with artificial intelligence, where the machine has autonomy and is an active player itself, are yet to be fully understood. In this article, we analyse the evolving design of public benches along the axes of smartness and disruption to understand their qualities as playful, urban machines in public spaces. We present a concept-driven speculative design case study, as an exploration of a smart, sensing, and disruptive urban machine for playful placemaking. With the emergence of artificial intelligence, we expand on the potential of urban machines to partake an increasingly active role as co-creators of play and playful placemaking in the cities of tomorrow.

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Section: Technology and Playful Placemakingmentioning

confidence: 99%