Serious Geogames for Civic Engagement in Urban Planning

Poplin, Alenka; Kerkhove, Timothy; Reasoner, Marina; Roy, Arindam; Brown, Nick

doi:10.4324/9781315270241-14

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“…The second one indicates the first edited journal published online with nine articles edited by Poplin and Schwartz (2020). The application areas of geogames include urban planning (De Andrade et al, 2020; Devisch, 2008; Devisch et al, 2016; Gordon and Manosevitch, 2010; Gordon and Schirra, 2012; Krek, 2008; Poplin, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018; Poplin et al, 2017, 2018, 2021; Poplin and Vemuri, 2018), cultural heritage, geography (De Sena et al, 2018; De Sena and Moura, 2022), climate change (De Andrade, 2020) and geodesign (De Sena et al, 2021), and architecture (Poplin, 2020). The Rochester Institute of Technology added application areas in disaster management (Schwartz and Tomaszewski, 2021; Tomaszewski et al, 2018, 2020) and well-being.…”

Section: Inclusion Of Youth In Urban Planning Through Serious Digital...mentioning

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Let’s discuss our city! Engaging youth in the co-creation of living environments with digital serious geogames and gamified storytelling

Poplin

Andrade

Sena

2022

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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This article concentrates on ways in which novel playful technologies can engage youth in co-creation of living environments. The presented study focuses on five selected prototypes of serious digital geogames and gamified storytelling that were developed specifically for younger generations of users. The analysis concentrates on reviewing their goals, game story, outcomes, and the results of testing serious digital geogames prototypes with youth. It leads to a set of identified urban planning engagement forms that can be well supported with the help of serious digital geogames. They include exploring landscapes, learning about places, learning about specific topics, reconstructing the past, envisioning the future, connecting with action projects, and communicating. The article concludes with the discussion of the main findings and perspectives for further research.

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Let’s discuss our city! Engaging youth in the co-creation of living environments with digital serious geogames and gamified storytelling

Poplin

Andrade

Sena

2022

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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“…Serious geogames can be used for learning in a variety of disciplines including cultural heritage landscapes and civic engagement (de Andrade et al 2020; de Sena and de Andrade 2018; de Callaghan 2016), urban planning (Poplin 2012(Poplin , 2014Poplin et al 2017;Devisch et al 2016) andgeodesign (McDaniel 2018;Scholten et al 2017). Experiences provided by geogames favor the increase of spatial awareness, showing the intrinsic potential of games for the development of mental maps and geovisualization of the landscape (de Sena 2019).…”

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GeoMinasCraft: A Serious Geogame for Geographical Visualization and Exploration

Sena

Poplin

Andrade

2021

Urban Informatics and Future Cities

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This chapter concentrates on the implementation of the geogame GeoMi-nasCraft and its use for geographical virtual explorations. The game was implemented to study the use of geospatial data for the visualizations of landscapes in a serious game. The users/players can take on an adventure, explore the landscapes, learn about geodiversity, and face different challenges. The game takes us to the City of Ouro Preto in Minas Gerais in Brazil. The city was selected due to its historical significance and socio-cultural values. We used satellite images and transformed them into blocks imitating these real-world landscapes and cities in Minecraft. We tested the game prototype with nine students which gave us the needed feedback for the improvements of the first prototype. This chapter summarizes the game concept, its implementation, and the testing results. We conclude the chapter with a discussion and further research directions. IntroductionAlthough research on the use of gaming for serious purposes has increased recently (Anderson et al. 2010), the use of digital games to support geoconservation purposes,

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“…This is why we applied Minecraft, a 3D block-building geogame, for young people to co-design climate adaptation scenarios [16][17][18][19]. Minecraft is categorised as a geogame when there is a 3D representation of a real socio-spatial context, and a design goal for public engagement [20,21]. It allows players to 'mine' resources and use them to build a variety of 3D blocks following the brick-building logic of Lego.…”

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A Videogame for Architectural Design? Minecraft for Young People to Imagine Desirable Climate Futures

Andrade,

Crowley,

Cocco

et al. 2024

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Cultural heritage has been under pressure from impacts of climate change, yet its conservation and rehabilitation seldom play a role in coastal sustainable development. Two-thirds of the world's population will live in cities until 2050, and more than one billion will live in coastal areas. New digitalization methods and tools have been applied in architectural, urban and landscape design to raise awareness of coastal communities about climate change adaptation and to protect their cultural heritage. Still, younger people have seldom been involved in the planning process, such as the review of master plans. Geogames, locationbased games for public engagement, such as Minecraft, have been applied as an active educational tool for young people. Thus, how can Minecraft support youth engagement in co-designing climate adaptation scenarios for heritage-sensitive sites? We applied Minecraft as a geogame to engage 10-12 years old children to co-design climate adaptation scenarios for the Rogerstown Estuary area in North Dublin, Ireland. Parents also got involved, supporting their children's design process and reflections on climate change impacts and risks to their local/cultural heritage. Young people showed awareness of environmental issues and community needs. New questions emerged about using Minecraft and other geogames for capacity-building in wider consultation processes, as well as informing urban policy-making for greater conservation and sustainability of heritage-sensitive sites.

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Serious Geogames for Civic Engagement in Urban Planning

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Let’s discuss our city! Engaging youth in the co-creation of living environments with digital serious geogames and gamified storytelling

Let’s discuss our city! Engaging youth in the co-creation of living environments with digital serious geogames and gamified storytelling

GeoMinasCraft: A Serious Geogame for Geographical Visualization and Exploration

A Videogame for Architectural Design? Minecraft for Young People to Imagine Desirable Climate Futures

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