http://www.theresponsivecity.org Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:26:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Burgers proberen vastgelopen stedelijke ontwikkeling te redden in ontwerp-game. 14 — 16 Oktober: Play the City! in Amsterdam Noord Play the City! is een ontwerp–game waar de spelers kansen creëren en verantwoordelijkheid nemen voor de ontwikkeling van de stad. In het spel concurreer je met andere ondernemers, bewoners, ambtenaren, politici, ontwikkelaars, activisten en ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2011/09/27/play-noord/ You are watching one of our neighborhood acts in the buurtmarkt of Van der Pekbuurt, a game interface where we debate possible programs for Amsterdam Noord with residents. In June 2011, we have moved our temporary office to Amsterdam Noord, Van der Pekbuurt. Since then we have been working on forming ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2011/08/29/can-a-city-game-change-noord/ Our young and growing TReC network is asking extra hands for communication and development of city design projects. TReC has been developing non-digital city design games since 2008, besides its research on cities, complexity and design. Currently we are making World of Citycraft [WOC], a game for co-designing cities by ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2011/08/24/trec-seeks-interns/ We just moved our office temporarily to Jasmijnstraat 4 in Amsterdam Noord to realize World of Citycraft [WOC]. WOC will bring all parties together in a game house to systematically register all  projects, ideas, ambitions on Kop van Noord, one of the most central sites of Amsterdam, the capital city ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2011/08/05/woc-choses-amsterdam-noord-as-a-test-site/ While conducting our field work in Amsterdam, we realized the wasteland of Overhoeks [a high end housing development on hold due to financial crisis] needs to find new links to Buiksloterham [an industrial port area in transition] and Van der Pekbuurt [almost 100% social housing neighborhood]. We named this urban ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2011/08/04/kop-van-noord/ The city game World of Citycraft is a tool for supporting collaborative city making. We develop this as a method to be applied in different sites, such as Amsterdam Noord and Binckhorst in the Hague. Earlier in 2011, the artistic director of Tolhuistuin*, Chris Keulemans invited us to research and ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2011/08/04/tolhuistuin-invites-world-of-citycraft/ Well-respected experts in the fields of governance, gaming, new media, planning and design have been supervising us in the creation of the World of Citycraft [WOC]. WOC Think Tank Team involves Jacqueline Tellinga, [project leader of the Homeruskwartier in Almere], Prof. Juval Portugali [TU Delft], Ute Schneider, [urban designer and ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2011/08/04/wocs-thinktank/ INTI Ville is a mobile city simulation game designed for the Flevopolders of the Netherlands. An evolutionary new town grows as players sequentially pick the most suitable location for own home, a public school, culture center or an industrial complex. As paradoxical as it sounds this alternative interactive city making ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2011/06/08/inti-ville/ Urbanism students of TU Delft would love to see digital, experimental instruments for research, design and planning of cities embedded in their education. That is why they invited Ekim Tan [TReC/TU Delft/INTI] Frank Werner [KCAP] and to present their experience in this field. Here you can download short version of ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2011/05/08/digital-urbanism/ Stichting Doen grants TReC with a start subsidy for developing World of Citycraft [WOC], a method using serious gaming for negotiative and interactive planning and design. After winning Kom Je Ook? 6 pitch organized by Mediamatic, within the framework of WOC, we have already started building online and offline citymaking ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2011/04/26/stichting-doen-grants-woc-with-start-subsidy/ In Strijp S, TReC gave a design workshop to a group of professionals and TU Eindhoven students during the Self-Made City Event. During the day, Ekim Tan and Cristina Ampatzidou introduced a process based design approach where participants role played in the existing Dutch city making procedures as well as ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2011/04/26/self-made-city-in-strijp-s/ TReC is invited to lead an international design team during the INDESEM 2011 'Losing Ground' workshop, TU Delft. Here you find the TReC interview with Hans Larrson from INDESEM. Larrson asks Ekim Tan on TReC's method for negotiative and interactive citymaking. What makes INDESEM [INternational DEsign SEMinar] special is ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2011/04/19/losing-ground/ TReC's research focuses on Istanbul's northern sprawl in relation to the 3rd bridge and Marmarail as well as urban growth versus preservation of natural resources such as the northern forests and clean water reserves. Within this framework we also run a design studio for the Public Building/Design as ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2011/04/04/istanbul-decentralized/ TReC organizes Managing the Unmanageable, one day symposium on Istanbul’s northern peripheries for the International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam 2012, Design as Politics and Public Building design studios of the TU Delft. Download the program here! Who governs Istanbul’s sprawl? What are the influential powers behind city’s Northern developments? How do these ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2011/03/09/x/ TReC organizes successfully one-week-test-drive of the responsive city game YAPYAŞA in Istanbul. For latest news on YAPYAŞA please follow us on facebook. The interactive design game was tested 3 times with a wide participation of ULI [The Urban Land Institute], neighborhood organizations of Kartal, Sariyer and Arnavutkoy, IMP [Istanbul Metropolitan Planning ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/11/02/yapyasa-week-istanbul/ Play the City Foundation wins the Juryprize with WOC -World of Citycraft at ‘Kom je ook? 6 organized by DOEN Foundation and Mediamatic. The concept of ‘city-making via games’ is based on TReC’s former project YAPYAŞA/Istanbul. With WOC, the analog gaming approach developed in Istanbul will be expanded to ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/11/02/woc-world-of-citycraft/ TReC designed a rule-based urban growth model for Ghana’s capital. [a collaboration with Krill] The idea was developed as a reaction to ENVIU’s open call for an open source approach to sustainable architecture; the OS House competition. TReC took a critical distance to the competition brief focused on a ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/11/02/unsolicited-accra/ TReC joins Brussels Urban Forum to present her responsive city-making approach and expand her network with urban gardeners, cyclists, DIY-ers, urban planners, kitchen chefs and IT-ers. Invited by City Mine[d], TReC comes together with 30 initiatives from 13 European cities, in an Urban Platform in November 2010, to exchange and ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/11/02/urban-forum/ TReC runs test drives of YAPYAŞA in Istanbul. YAPYAŞA is an interactive real-time real-agent role-playing game, taking place in Istanbul’s 3 neighborhoods, in 2011 in the Netherlands it will be released as World of Citycraft. For latest news on YAPYAŞA please follow us on facebook. http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/11/02/yapyasa-in-istanbul/ TReC wins the Juryprize with WOC -World of Citycraft at ‘Kom je ook? 6 organized by DOEN Foundation and Mediamatic. The concept of ‘city-making via games’ is based on TReC’s former project YAPYAŞA/Istanbul. With WOC, the analog gaming approach developed in Istanbul will be married to the digital world of ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/11/02/september-2010/ TReC [Ekim Tan] lectures on ‘cities can be designed via games’ in SummerSchool Lingezegen to talk. Henk Oosterling, Tom Matton, and Christopher Dell are other invited lecturers who focus on themes such as collective intelligence and design by improvisation. For further information please click here. http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/10/31/park-lingezegen/ PLAY THE CITY yeni kent uretme/ ve kent donusturme pratiklerini kent simulasyon oyunlarini araciligiyla kent tasarlama projesidir. Asagida proje ile ilgili olarak TReC [Ekim Tan]'in Yeni Mimar'da yayimlanan makalesini bulabilirsiniz. “ Ciddi oyunlar ya da birlikte canlandırma yolu ile kent tasarım projeleri öncelikle iki şeyi aynı anda yapabiliyor: 1. Ortak karar alma, 2. Alınan ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/08/09/play-the-city-4/ YAPYAŞA, simulates an alternative responsive urban transformation model, remains neutral towards all actors of transformation, brings all actors together to interact for demarcating Istanbul’s collective common interests, takes place in Istanbul’s DNA, a generic urban block, representing 70% of the city, subject to transformation for various reasons from earthquake to sustainability, from densification to ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/08/09/yapyasa-istanbul-2/ For this year's summer edition of French-English bimonthly magazine L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui ['A'A'],TReC published an article ‘On Collectivity’. This article is based on the theoretical work of Ekim Tan and Diana Ibáñez López’s observations on Cairo. Download the full article here. Published alongside established theorists such as Alain de Botton, Aaron Betsky, ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/08/09/on-collectivity-in-aa/ TReC delivers a scientific paper on architectural competitions and responsive city games 'Construction Matters: Managing Complexities, Decisions and Actions in the Building Processs' conference. http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/08/08/trec-in-copenhagen/ TReC [Muge Yorganci] wins 1st Prize in the Temporary City Istanbul design competition with her team. http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/08/08/trec-wins-temporary-city/ TReC gets selected by SFA Stimuleringsfonds Architecture to apply for ‘International Projects’ Fund. Art Beyond Borders of BKVB, and later the Dutch Consulate in Istanbul financially supports PLAY THE CITY. http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/08/06/sfa-project-partner-2/ TReC-airo maps the dynamics of urban densification in Cairo. http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/08/06/mapping-cairo-2/ TReC created PLAY the CITY, an Istanbul-Netherlands based think-do program until 2012, focusing in the field of democratic city making. http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/08/05/play-the-city-2/ Eurasian Informality and Gecekondu exhibited in IABR International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. For more information please check our posts: Eurasian Informality and Gecekondu. http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/08/05/iabr-2009/