From Playable to Playful: The Humorous City

Chamari Edirisinghe; Anton Nijholt; Adrian Cheok

Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. 8th International Conference, INTETAIN 2016, Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 28–30, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

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From Playable to Playful: The Humorous City

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-49616-0_25,
    author={Chamari Edirisinghe and Anton Nijholt and Adrian Cheok},
    title={From Playable to Playful: The Humorous City},
    proceedings={Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. 8th International Conference, INTETAIN 2016, Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 28--30, 2016, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={INTETAIN},
    year={2017},
    month={1},
    keywords={Playable Playful Humor Urban spaces Smart city},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-319-49616-0_25}
}

Chamari Edirisinghe
Anton Nijholt
Adrian Cheok
Year: 2017
From Playable to Playful: The Humorous City
INTETAIN
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49616-0_25

Chamari Edirisinghe¹^,*, Anton Nijholt¹^,*, Adrian Cheok¹^,*

1: Imagineering Institute

*Contact email: chamari@imagineeringinstitute.org, anton@imagineeringinstitute.org, adrian@imagineeringinstitute.org

Abstract

This writing is focusing on the concept of play in the city. In pursuit of ideal city, the concept of play has been neglected, pushed to labelled corners, assigned to certain age bracket. Playable city movement has brought the play in to the dialogue on city, the contemporary smart city, underlining the factors such as humor, spontaneity and pleasure. This paper introduces taking the playable city a step further towards a playful city, where play is a continuous process of city living, seamlessly integrated into the smart structure of the city, where citizens can reinvent the infrastructure for humorous purposes.

Keywords: Playable Playful Humor Urban spaces Smart city

Published: 2017-01-05
Appears in: SpringerLink

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49616-0_25