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Focus section on
*Games for Urban Sustainability*
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*Guest Editors:*
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• Salvatore Di Dio, PUSH design lab, Italy
• Bernat Gaston, I2CAT, Spain/
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*Important dates:*
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• Deadline: *March 10, 2019*
• Notification to the authors: April 15, 2019
• Camera ready paper: May 10, 2019
• Publication of the special issue: end of May, 2019
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*Overview*
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How is it possible to design more sustainable cities in an era of zero
resources, rife social conflicts and unprecedented environmental issues?
When it comes to discussions about urban sustainability, the focus is
often on how to bring new technologies to improve the habitat. The
general attempt is to innovate, in many different ways, the city
hardware. Nowadays the area of urban innovation is experiencing a boom
in research attention, in particular considering the human nature.
Researchers, private companies and public bodies are now drawing on
lessons from the social sciences, trying to understand the behaviors
that shape use of resources and how people can be persuaded to use,
first of all, less resources. But, as Stephen Wendel in “ Designing for
Behavior Change: Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics” pointed
out, people are reluctant in changing their habits. We rarely recognize
that to improve the quality of our neighborhood / city / region /
planet, and and of our life, we need to change our habits. Even though
we know it, we hardly start doing it. It’s hard, indeed, to believe in
the butterfly effect ( i.e. that our routines impact the entire
ecosystem) so every little change of our daily behaviors is perceived as
“unnecessary”.
With the attempt to radically change this perception, behavior change
techniques highlighted Gamification as an effective approach to follow.
The definition of play elaborated by Bernard Suits in “The Grasshopper:
games, life and utopia” really helps to make this connection clear:
playing a game is the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary
obstacles. The triggers of games ( e.g. social motivation, intrinsic
benefits and monetary rewards) seem to have the power to provide
knowledge, to enhance relational skills and change people perception
about unhealthy behaviors, turning unnecessary habit changes into
necessary. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in “ Flow. The Psychology of the
Optimal Experience” clearly shows that games help to define new
enjoyable experiences, change citizens’ unsustainable habits and educate
to new environmental and social friendly ones. In the last decade, all
over the world, physical and virtual urban games are trying to
demonstrate these assumptions, but is it working? This focus session
aims at highlighting specifically those games for urban sustainability
that have measured (or foreseen) their impact in urban ecosystems
according to the triple sustainability ( i.e. social, economic and
environmental) or other impact frameworks.
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*Topics of Interest*
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• Gamification of urban experiences for the purpose of triple
sustainability.
• Games for behaviour change / people at core of the change.
• Co-creation with local stakeholders / co-creation at neighbourhood level.
• Impact assessment (social, economic and environmental) of games in
urban areas.
• New organisational and governance concept originated by the use of
games for urban sustainability.
• Changes in planning processes due to the use of results and data from
urban games development.
• Business models for scaling-up games approaches and make them a
sustainable business.
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'Indigenous Knowledge and Practices contributing to new approaches in
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Guest Editors: Kasper Rodil, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Tutaleni I.
Asino, Tariq Zaman
• Autumn 2019
'Co-Creation in the Design, Development and Implementation of
Technology-Enhanced Learning'
Guest Editors: Panagiotis Antoniou, Sebastian Dennerlein, István Koren,
Tamsin Treasure-Jones
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'Smart Learning Ecosystems - design literacy as cornerstones of smart
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