What is Urban Gamification?
What is Urban Gamification?
What is Urban Gamification?
September 26, 2022
By Ankitha Gattupalli
Summary
Play and games embedded in the city's fabric can help improve user engagement with urban spaces.
When applied to the urban context, it presents itself as nodes for playful interaction that create transformative ways of experiencing the city.
Similar forms of playful placemaking exhibit possibilities of how games can reconnect people with cities.
Digital gamification of the city can have multiple benefits for the citizens' livelihoods and the infrastructure.
Location-based digital games can create a strong sense of place in pockets of the city, appropriating it into a virtual playground.
The gamification of city improvement can be used to capture incredibly valuable geodata for government bodies.
Urban gamification hints at possibilities for more participatory and playful cities in the coming future.
Reference
Gattupalli, A. (2022, September 26). What is urban gamification? Retrieved October 3, 2022, from https://www.archdaily.com/989548/what-is-urban-gamification