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Six Principles of Designing for Engagement
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 4pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; font-family: “Times New Roman”; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } Designing for local engagement within the context of net locality is a multi-faceted process. Building systems of interaction that … Continue reading
Community PlanIt
While it has been announced in a number of forums, I have not yet written about the Engagement Game Lab on this blog. In August 2010, the Engagement Game Lab was born as a virtual research organization at Emerson College. … Continue reading
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Augmented Deliberation
The central premise of the Participatory Chinatown project is the staging of what we call “augmented deliberation.” We introduce augmented deliberation as a possible design solution that addresses uniquely difficult contexts where deliberation is complicated by one or many external … Continue reading
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3-D Worlds for Land Use Planning
Holly St. Clair writes about the Participatory Chinatown project in an article for the American Planning Association newsletter. In explaining what PC will do for the planning process, she says: The emphasis is not just on the computer simulation, but … Continue reading
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Immersive Planning
Methods of engaging communities in urban planning decisions have remained relatively stagnant. Groups of people are assembled into community centers, school cafeterias, and libraries and are asked to provide input on the professional discourse of architects and planners. They are … Continue reading
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Creating Empathy Through Role Play
We’ve made some good progress on the Participatory Chinatown (PC) project. Building off of the first iteration of Hub2, PC will continue with the focus on creating platforms for “augmented deliberation,” but it will do so by more thoroughly exploring … Continue reading
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Urban Spectator
Here’s the cover of my book. It’s finally going to come out, even though it’s still months away. The book looks at something I call possessive spectatorship in the American city, a way of looking that doubles as a kind … Continue reading
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Paying Attention to the Local
While new mobile technologies are often characterized as distractions from the world around us – just consider the outcry over train operators texting while driving – they are, in fact, technologies of attention. They get us to pay attention to … Continue reading
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Network Locality Article
My article on Network Locality has finally appeared in the journal First Monday. Hey, and it’s free and online. Go figure. Academic papers that people can actually read.
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Mixed Reality Deliberation
The goal of Hub2 is to introduce a deliberative process into community meetings that currently does not exist. Who do this by integrating Second Life into the existing community process. We believe that the affordances of the tool and the … Continue reading