{"id":340,"date":"2018-06-14T16:11:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T20:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/?page_id=340"},"modified":"2018-06-25T12:09:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T16:09:59","slug":"new-bedford","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/pokemon-report\/cities\/new-bedford\/","title":{"rendered":"City Profile: New Bedford (bottom-up)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To complement our <a href=\"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/temp-report-overview\/\">report on city tactics<\/a>, we highlight the remarkable bottom-up case of New Bedford, Massachusetts<em> (pop. 95,000)<\/em>. Here, passionate local residents continue to remix Pok\u00e9mon GO on their own. A great example of grassroots organizing, this small town\u2019s use of Pok\u00e9mon GO offers a compelling case for how games can be part of community revitalization.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_214\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214\" style=\"width: 701px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-214 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NB1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NB1.png 701w, https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NB1-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Promotional image for a player-organized Pok\u00e9mon GO event<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Highlights<\/h2>\n<p>Here are a few highlights that capture some of the ways the town is remixing and integrating the game:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Within &#8220;Third Saturday&#8221; events\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>&#8211; Pok\u00e9mon GO is consistently layered on top of the town\u2019s Third Saturdays, which are held downtown every third Saturday at The Joan &amp; Irwin Jacobs Center for Education &amp; Innovation for the Global Learning Charter Public School. <em>(Attendees 65+ are regulars, hinting at how games can help with intergenerational conversations.)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<strong><em>20 Pok\u00e9stops for 20 Years<\/em><\/strong>\u201d &#8211; On November 12, 2016, the town included a Pok\u00e9mon GO geocaching component as part of the National Park\u2019s scavenger hunt to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the National Park in Downtown New Bedford. Lures were lit on 20 Pok\u00e9stops all day, with suggested routes published online and in print.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215\" style=\"width: 419px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-215 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NB2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NB2.png 419w, https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NB2-276x300.png 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook event page for a player event<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Relationships with Local Commerce:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Local restaurants donate a handful of in-kind contributions, deals, and sponsors for monthly Pok\u00e9mon Go events. As lead organizer Michelle Keith say, &#8220;it&#8217;s a whole community activity. It&#8217;s not just people, it&#8217;s people and commerce.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Educational Events: <\/em><\/strong>Recognizing that &#8220;only some people get it immediately,\u201d Keith and colleagues taught newcomers how to play at the Community Table at Gallery X for the William Street Festival event. Included a free raffle and lures lit on 20 Pok\u00e9stops, from 12-5pm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Post-Raid Pizza Nights: <\/em><\/strong>Local raid groups often convene for pizza nights at a downtown restaurant, to celebrate their efforts within the game and its place in the community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Visuals and circulating images:<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_579\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-579\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-579 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2017-10-08-article-SouthCoastToday1HeadlineCrop-e1529684089821-1024x812.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2017-10-08-article-SouthCoastToday1HeadlineCrop-e1529684089821-1024x812.png 1024w, https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2017-10-08-article-SouthCoastToday1HeadlineCrop-e1529684089821-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2017-10-08-article-SouthCoastToday1HeadlineCrop-e1529684089821-768x609.png 768w, https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2017-10-08-article-SouthCoastToday1HeadlineCrop-e1529684089821.png 1117w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An article written by organizer Michelle Keith for her local paper about the potential benefits of playing Pok\u00e9mon GO as a community (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southcoasttoday.com\/news\/20171008\/pokxe9mongo-tool-for-success-good-health-and-community\">via South Coast Today<\/a>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Read more<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/pokemon-go\/additional-new-bedford-reflections\/\">Local organizer Michelle Keith<\/a>, as profiled by report co-author Samantha Dols<\/li>\n<li>Keith&#8217;s own article, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southcoasttoday.com\/news\/20171008\/pokxe9mongo-tool-for-success-good-health-and-community\">Pok\u00e9monGO, a tool for: Success, good health and community<\/a>&#8221; (10\/8\/2017, South Coast Today)<\/li>\n<li>While <a href=\"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/temp-report-overview\/\">our report<\/a> does not profile New Bedford in depth, many of the tactics overlap with those used by Keith independently, with some fascinating contrasts as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To complement our report on city tactics, we highlight the remarkable bottom-up case of New Bedford, Massachusetts (pop. 95,000). Here, passionate local residents continue to remix Pok\u00e9mon GO on their own. A great example of grassroots organizing, this small town\u2019s use of Pok\u00e9mon GO offers a compelling case for how games can be part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":174,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-340","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340\/revisions\/669"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}