BLOK 74 Urban Simulations / Urban Communications

08/09/2025

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03/09/2025

20/12/2023

This year's visit to resulted in a joint article about unique African - read about the International Confrence Center and Nile Hotel in the latest edition of Docomomo International dedicated to Shared Heritage Africa
https://docomomojournal.com/index.php/journal/article/view/604
https://docomomojournal.com/index.php/journal

20/01/2023

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16/12/2022

/ A Year in Applied Games for Urbanism /

2022 was the year BLOK 74 went further with providing applied games to solve real issues in and through a hybrid blending of and 3D modelling.

We:
🖥 Finished the Urban Research Incubator scientific research Web3D site
🧩 Staged a large analogue co-design game for rural renewal of the Atert-Wark region in Luxembourg,
🖼 Exhibited hybrid urban games in Vienna and Amsterdam,
🚲 Experimented together with our German colleagues how to change urban mobility behaviours with an app, a game board and funky chatbots called Gudi and Juergen,
⭐️ Sprinkled some cool web playfulness for AEDES Architecture Forum anniversary, and
🎤 Draw some thoughts on how to use games-as-a-service for planning and communication at Strand Conference in Belgrade.

As we prepare for 2023 and projects in the NL and EU, we know that a lot of uncharted urban gamification potential is out there - so drop us a line about projects you do, challenges you work on or digital solutions you would like to develop with but don’t know how - we are listening and supporting you!

With best wishes for the holiday season,
BLOK 74 Rotterdam / Belgrade: Milena, Stefan, Ljiljana, Milos

10/12/2022

It was great pleasure to see our "Delft Campus" hybrid exposed yesterday at , "The City in Play" exhibition and stand next to big names in applied gaming, architecture and art such as You+Pea, Molleindustria and Yuk-Yiu Ip.
👏for BLOK 74 creative team and many thanks to the curator Mélanie van der Hoorn for curating our work both in Vienna and Amsterdam!

25/11/2022

On the 2nd of December 2022 Milena Ivkovic will be holding a keynote at the STRAND conference” On Architecture” in Belgrade, Serbia. The title will be: “ Game-as-a-service for urban design and communication”. The keynote will showcase some cool immersive digital solutions we have been developing this year with ISTP/ETH Zurich.
More details on how to join and where to read the full paper: https://www.strand.rs/

08/11/2022

After the wonderful exhibition curated by Melanie van der Hoorn at famous AZW in Vienna last March, the exquisite “Serious Fun - Architecture and Games” catalogue has just been published. You can find the Delft Campus simulation among featured games!

The full feature of the game including the Delft Campus digital app will soon be exhibited once more, this time in the prestigious Arcam Architecture Center Amsterdam, starting from 9th of December until February 2023.

https://arcam.nl/events/playing-architecture-het-spel-om-de-stad.

Want to order the “Serious Fun” catalogue? Drop a message to [email protected]

05/07/2022

Our wonderful little web project for Aedes Architecture Forum celebrating the 80th birthday of its founder Mrs. Kristin Feireiss just got launched this week, using Bucky Fuller’s Dymaxion projection and our own coding and creative gamification/UX skills.
We made it in close collaboration with Urban-Think Tank Hubert Klumpner / Michael Walczak and Aedes Architecture Forum Hans-Jürgen Commerell/ Kristine Meierhofer
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