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Let’s Play the City: Urban Gamification and Player Citizens, 7/05/2015, Turin (IT)

Elsa Soro from Platoniq participates in 'Gamification and Public Space' symposium in Turin with “Hack for participative spaces: IdeaCamp's case”.
Vassilis Chryssos playing Commonspoly during the Idea Camp 2015. Photograph by Julio Albarrán

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GAMIFICATION AND PUBLIC SPACE
Thursday, 7 th May 09:00 to 19:00,Verdi 8, Torino, Italy

A correct implementation of gamification strategies allow us to go from mere connectivity to civil engagement, allowing the citizens and collectives to participate in a dynamic and proactive way in actions that generally require a joint effort and give the civil society strength for promoting and leading a common change.

Can the gamification help the citizens to live in a different way the urban spaces?

In which way the new technologies give a new sense to the contemporary city?

This and other are the questions that are at the core of the symposium “Let’s play the city!” that has a main objective to elaborate a reflection on the relationship between urban spaces and ludic practices, generating a dialogue between the Communication disciplines and the gamification, expert professionals.

Elsa Soro from Platoniq is going to participate with the communication: “Hack for participative spaces: IdeaCamp’s case”.

For the complete article, visit the original post on ECF Lab Build the City.

Carmen Lozano-Bright is the recipient of an R&D grant from the European Cultural Foundation for her research into Southern European commoning practices. She moderates the p2pSquare! Lab on ECFLabs, ECF’s online community space (https://ecflabs.org/lab/p2p-square). She is a member of Platoniq in Barcelona, Spain (www.youcoop.org), one of the hubs in the European Cultural Foundation’s Networked Programme – Connected Action for the Commons.

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