A catalog of Speculative Playful Urban Technology
This work explores how we can design city infrastructure from the bottom up, in ways that respond to the kinds of playful and social things that make people thrive. Urban technology can cater to people's social, cultural, and emotional needs. By chasing play potentials, we found the following themes (more details in our publication):
Discover the Invisible
Connect with Strangers
Fill the gaps
Temporal decontextualization
Urban challenges
Prank strangers
Massive celebrations
Communicate at a distance
Asynchronous communication
Hack the street
Customize the self
Performative behaviors
Pose performatively
Admire the urban space
Stream exciting urban ocurrences
Speculative Designs
My Role
I co-led this design project with Ferran Altarriba Bertran. We supervised and collaborated with a small group of undergraduates and chased play potentials that lead to a catalog of speculative designs.
