What makes a city playable?
In part one of the first episode of Playopolis, we talk to two of the world’s leading advocates for playable cities, Clare Reddington and Hilary O’Shaughnessy from the Watershed Pervasive Media Studio, about their mission to restore agency and creativity to cities through games and play.
In part two, we take a deep dive into the weird and wonderful world of Randonauting – a random walking app that uses quantum random numbers to reveal glitches in the edge of the simulation. Featuring interviews and contributions from creative technologist Gerard Mason, Randonautica founder Joshua Lengfelder, Australian National University’s Department of Quantum Physics Professor Ping Koy Lam, and media scholar Dr Siobhan Lyons.
Episode 1 show notes
- The Watershed Pervasive Media Studio is a community of over 100 artists, creative companies, technologists and academics exploring experience design and creative technology
- Follow Clare Reddington on Twitter at @clarered
- Hilary O’Shaughnessy is the Lead Producer for Playable City
- Keith Crawford is a producer at the mobile development agency Millipede
- Download the Randonautica app
- Read more about the Australian National University’s Quantum Random Number Generator, and see, listen or download random numbers in real time from their website
- Connect with Dr Siobhan Lyons on LinkedIn
- Gerard Mason is a creative technologist who, as you read this, is entering your mind
00:31 Playable Cities
01:13 What is a playable city?
04:18 What’s makes a city playable?
06:10 Watershed and the history of the Pervasive Media Studio
07:56 The social life of small urban spaces
09:41 Hello Lamp Post and Shadowing
11:18 Smart Cities vs Playable Cities now
12:41 Niantic’s Wayfarer initiative
13:37 Urban play in Melbourne
15:15 64 Ways of Being
15:50 Keith from Millipede talks about process
17:43 Developing the app
19:20 Randonauting
19:27 Gerard’s excellent adventure
20:44 Founder of Randonautica Josh Lengfelder
22:04 Professor Ping Koi Lam and significance in randomness
28:49 Guy Debord and the Situationists
33:16 Reflections on Randonauting
35:37 Credits
