Steffen Walz. Gamification: city as a playground || Moscow Urban FEST 2019

How to turn the city into a rational and stable playground capable of improving the quality of life and well-being of inhabitants? In the course of the lecture by Steffen Waltz, the famous Game Studies expert, we will discuss all possible options: inspiring, encouraging, educating and even motivating for a playful mood. Combining gaming techniques with digital technologies, we will elaborate "stories from the future" together with the lecturer in order to formulate any, even insane, answers to the questions asked above. Steffen will also talk about several interesting projects. For example, about finding games that are suitable for stimulating the activity of patients with type 2 diabetes or maintaining the link between the passengers and the environment during a car trip. Ready to join the game?

Prof. Dr. Steffen P. Walz is Director of Design Innovation at diconium, a Volkswagen participation based in Germany. At diconium, Steffen looks to drive and converge topics including urban mobility, novel interactive entertainment, as well as wellbeing. A studied Cultural Anthropologist with a PhD in Computer Aided Architectural Design, he is also Adjunct Professor of Design Innovation at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, and lectures on Gameful Design at the University St.Gallen's Executive School in Switzerland. Steffen is an award-winning game designer, producer and researcher of (serious and not-so-serious) games and playful experiences, having worked with organizations including Daimler, Audi, Novartis Pharma, Bosch, Deloitte Center for the Edge and the United Nations Population Fund; he is the author and co-editor of relevant publications, including the book edition The Gameful World (The MIT Press 2015, together with Sebastian Deterding); and the curator of bizplay, an annual congress tapping into the potentials of play and games for businesses, art, design and society.

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