PLAY the CITY

12/04/2024

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Aanstaande woensdag, 17 April 2024, zullen de huisvestingsexperts van Almere en lokale bewoners samenkomen voor een open dialoog over het Kangoeroewonen036 onderzoek, geïnitieerd door Play the City en Kunstlinie. Uitnodigingen zijn verstuurd aan de lokale wethouder Froukje de Jonge en alle leiders van politieke facties in het gebied.
Zien we jullie daar?

28/02/2024

If you want to learn more about sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs), register now to our free online course, “Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) –...

03/07/2023

Dear friends and colleagues at fb,
our two interns are arriving this and coming week from Izmir and Istanbul, both of which are looking for an affordable living space in and around Amsterdam. Please let me know if you would have tips for these well-behaved hard-working and smart young designers and planners...
thanks on behalf Play the City team

09/05/2022

With Sangita Myska of Studios, we discussed and Play the City as one of the relevant methods to unblock the planning system in the UK. In her program Positive Thinking, Sangita goes in search of the innovators with big solutions to some of our most intractable problems.


We could enjoy her sharp questions and the conversation. In the second half, you hear local planning experts comment on the method and its impact. We hope you enjoy the program as well, here is the link to the interview:

https://lnkd.in/ecTP98mM
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Making Planning Work for Everyone

The government has pledged to build 300,000 new homes a year by the mid-2020s to ease the country’s housing crisis and increase home ownership, but that target is not being met. According to some experts the problem is that the system isn't equipped to deal with the amount of local opposition proposed developments generate. But what if there was a way to build consensus so that everyone felt their opinion was being heard?
Architect and game designer Ekim Tan believes the key could be in game play - bringing all the stakeholders together to play games involving design, policy and budgets. Her method has been tried in cities all over the world, could it work here?
Our expert panel:
David Rudlin, urbanist, master planner and Principle at Urbed design and research consultancy
Rosie Pearson, Chairman of the Community Planning Alliance
Dr Zac Baynham-Herd, Advisor at the Behavioural Insights Team

Does gaming hold the key to resolving the planning bottleneck?

27/09/2021

29 Eylulde anket kapanmadan siz de katılın:

Sizce Marmara Denizi'nde daha önce görünen kaç tür balığa artık rastlanamıyordur? Play Marmara “Denizi” dijital etkileşimli anketimize katılıp fikirlerinizi bizimle paylaşarak tüm paydaşların etrafında toplanacağı masada siz de yerinizi ayırın.

Anket için https://playthecity.typeform.com/PlayMarmara

14/04/2021

We are hiring

Play the City is NOW on the lookout for a talented DESIGN INTERN to join our team.

You:

• are passionate about city making, urban planning and design

• have a creative mind and can think out of the box

• have advanced skills in Sketch Up, Autocad, Adobe Suite, and GIS

• are a student or recent graduate in the field of architecture,

urban planning or similar

• have good communication skills

• are fluent in English [Dutch is a plus]

• can work independently


We will prioritize candidates interested in long-term employment with our team. The candidate starts with an internship that lasts 100 working days and pays 400€ monthly.

Play the City is an Amsterdam-based company that uses games to facilitate multi-stakeholder engagement in urban projects. Our projects are multi-disciplinary and diverse and have been implemented for large-scale projects in Amsterdam, Istanbul, Brussels, Shenzhen, Dublin, Bordeaux, and Cape Town.

By interning with us you will become an active member of our international team by bringing your specialized expertise to our current projects. You can expect personal guidance as well as open ears to your thoughts and ideas.

Interested?

Send your CV, portfolio (less than 4MB) and an A4 motivation letter to [email protected] with

"internship application" in the subject line of your email.

We are looking forward to your application,

Play the City Team

04/08/2020

is een Stadsconsultatie die digitale en analoge tools koppelt. Dit om input van burgers over de toekomst van het Koepelcomplex in Breda te visualiseren. De organiseert, in samenwerking met , drie analoge spelsessies, ondersteund door een online enquête [https://lnkd.in/dVyjMke] die openstaat voor alle Bredanaars. Bent of kent u een Bredanaar die kan bijdragen aan de toekomst van deze zeer bijzondere stedelijke locatie in Breda? Lees hier meer: https://www.planbreda.nl/koepel/default.aspx

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06/07/2020

Good morning Play the City friends, here is a link for remote internship possibility from our great collaborators from Cape Town

Work with us There are a number of ways to work with us and join our efforts to impact the future of our cities, communities and spaces. REMOTE INTERNSHIPS 2020 After 8 years and having worked with over 30 interns from around the world, Our Future Cities will for the first time open 3 remote interns...

26/06/2020

Very informative, still relaxed and pleasant conversation between urbanists, makers, artists and journalists, discussing Istanbul during the pandemic. So proud of this city's young generation aware of their talents and diversities. Also compliments to young and hard-working women making this program possible: Yasemin Bagci of DutchCulture centre for international cooperation Gatool Katawazi of Pakhuis de Zwijger
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25/06/2020

What should priorities of urban planners be in Istanbul?

[2010] was seeking a progressive coalition between [National Housing Company in Turkey] and small-scale developers, home owners who needed to react to urban transformation question to make residential neighborhoods earthquake proof.
9 years later, we built to bring together over 100 mayors in the Marmara Region, independent from their political party backgrounds. These cities, towns and villages will need to collaborate/act in issues as pollution in Marmara sea, during a potential expected earthquake, in optimizing mobility questions…


A clear continuity of setting social coalitions that will deliver meaningful work together with question owners. We need such an attitude during a health crisis only stronger. And after.

If you did not have enough of webinars yet, we are today 18:30 at Pakhuis de Zwijger talking with outstanding designers, makers, artists from Istanbul. Reserve your digital place through the link:

https://dezwijger.nl/programma/making-social-impact-in-istanbul

23/06/2020

Since May 2019, we have been developing and testing as a multiplayer game. The game will inform and activate processes for the on the neighborhood scale, at the request of the City of Amsterdam. In the article [in Dutch only], founder Play the City, Ekim Tan is interviewed by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie. Meanwhile, our team has been working on a ‘coronaproof’ hybrid [online and offline] version of the game. After the summer, we aim for new local adaptations in and outside Amsterdam.

Het Klimaatspel is een tafelspel dat wordt gespeeld met experts en burgers, met als doel gezamenlijk te verkennen welke keuzes er zijn om de eigen buurt klimaatneutraal te maken. Wat zijn de beschikbare technieken? Op welke schaal kunnen deze worden toegepast? Wat is de ruimtelijke impact ervan op d