Can a complex site, such as an urban park, be better understood through a game? Might this playful preparation be useful for design? In response to such questions, this project structured design-oriented site research as a development, implementation and deployment of a locative mobile game in which designers learn by racing colonies of virtual organisms. The analysis of this experiment demonstrates that this approach can support creativity and provide benefits compatible with goals of ecological design.
Roudavski, S; Rutten, J; Lee, V; Burry, M; Taylor, M; Malpas, J
(Place and Paramericism Exhibition at Real/Material/Ethereal: The 2nd Annual Design Research Conference, 2019)