- Title
- The Playable City: Refashioning Spaces Within Urban Social Design
- Creator
- Hight, Craig; Minichiello, Mario; Egglestone, Paul; Drummond, John; O'Callaghan, Simone; Cassin, Andrea; Irvine, Clare
- Relation
- Sixteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices. Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices (Newcastle, Australia 19-21 January, 2022) p. 44-48
- Relation
- https://designprinciplesandpractices.com/about/history/2022-conference
- Publisher
- Common Ground Research Networks
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2024
- Description
- Play is an essential part of life, a vital part of urban design, and in the case of Newcastle a possible panacea for late night inner-city anti-social behaviour. This paper introduces a pilot urban design project focused on the design of sets of interactive ‘henges’ across three central Newcastle city locations. Developed through collaborative design with the city council and local SMEs, these henges feature site-specific digital and sensor-based forms of interaction. They represent an innovative approach to shifting patterns of night-time anti-social behaviour within specific locations by re-imagining these sites as arenas for individual and social play. The henge sites aim to prompt discussion with city communities over the value of play within urban design and engage citizens in future smart city initiatives. This study discusses the challenges of deploying interactive technologies within urban social design, argues for the need to prioritise forms of play within smart city planning, and outlines a collaborative research design involving multiple urban stakeholders.
- Subject
- social design; interactive media; collaborative design; sensors
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1499748
- Identifier
- uon:54780
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781963049183
- Language
- eng
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