Urban Game Dynamics: How Game Designers, Curators, and Players Create New Possibilities

Urban games, by using the city as a medium, temporarily surface underlying ideologies and systems influencing urban life. This paper explores the political potential of this medium anchored by interviews with urban game makers/organizers and the strategies they have developed to bring inclusive, safe, and enlightening forms of play and public engagement to the city.

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This paper explores the political potential of urban games as a medium and the strategies developed by urban game makers/organizers to bring inclusive, safe, and enlightening forms of play and public engagement to the city, as revealed through interviews.