Discovering cities through serious games

01.10.2021 14:30 - 15:30 | Room 4 | SESSION

Moderator

Koray Velibeyoğlu

Assoc. Prof. Dr., City and Regional Planning, Izmir Institute of Technology

James Delaney

Chairman of the Board, Block by Block Foundation

Ulaş Akın

Dr., Founding Partner, Urban εκοSystems Lab

Ekim Tan

Dr., Founder & Director, Play the City

Andrea Betancourt

Senior Program Officer, Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation

While the future of cities in the 21st century is shaped by complexity and uncertainties such as climate change, disasters and pandemic, the number of innovative perspectives and methods is increasing day by day. Serious Game concept, which includes data-information-knowledge-wisdom integrity and multi-component and complex collective meaning-making processes, describes mostly simulation-based games developed for "purpose" based on real world problems. City Games has a special place among serious games and is a new field of urban innovation in the creation of cities in harmony with nature that will increase the quality of life and in favor of nature. Sharing experiences on this subject will shed light on the future of cities that produce solutions.