{"id":3191,"date":"2024-10-28T16:18:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T20:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2024-10-28T20:07:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T00:07:53","slug":"united-nations-low-tech-game-design-sdg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/events\/united-nations-low-tech-game-design-sdg\/","title":{"rendered":"At the United Nations: Low-Tech Game Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’m heading to the United Nations for a convening on games and the Sustainable Development Goals<\/a> with Games for Change. My brief talk tomorrow will advocate for “Low-Tech Beyond Our Walls<\/strong>.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My pitch is that all cities and towns should be able to make their own games for engagement in public space. The vision is grounded in our work with 50+ towns and cities over the past several years (see our Project EBOW: on Engaging Beyond Our Walls<\/a>) at the Playful City Lab and the American University Game Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Especially with the global south, we should be prioritizing play that is locally made — and accessible on ordinary phones. The scale of multimedia messaging remains incredibly high, and low-tech games can be made for relatively cheap (see our recipe book<\/a>!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The connective power of such games is only growing, from ChatGPT to the Internet of Things. Their power is in storytelling, but also in higher-latency approaches to multimedia. We must reject a high-tech vision of games, which harms our imagination of play as more universal, and precludes many of the potential impacts. #LocallyPlayed<\/strong> #LocallyMade<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m heading to the United Nations for a convening on games and the Sustainable Development Goals with Games for Change. My brief talk tomorrow will advocate for “Low-Tech Beyond Our Walls.” My pitch is that all cities and towns should be able to make their own games for engagement in public space. The vision is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebow","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playfulcity.net\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}