
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.