How do we make Mebourne a more Playful City?

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Marigo Raftopoulos

Use our lovely lane ways as playful events

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Colin Simpson More street art?
16 November 2012 04:57 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno Why would hack mean Graffitti?
16 November 2012 04:55 pm

Eyal Halamish if hack means graffiti, then yes.
16 November 2012 04:00 pm

Marigo Raftopoulos

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Colin Simpson My brain and hands hurt
16 November 2012 04:57 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno This was my first Games4Change and I am absolutely in love! Save for this last minute stressing part of a challenge its been overall a great experience.
16 November 2012 04:55 pm

Eyal Halamish Having been to NYC, it actually feels smaller, but of similar caliber. Very well done.
16 November 2012 04:01 pm

Nikash Anand

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Colin Simpson Weird
16 November 2012 04:57 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno So the bug is extending to comments too? I wonder if we can edit them?
16 November 2012 04:51 pm

Nikash Anand
13 November 2012 02:14 pm

Nikash Anand

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Colin Simpson Better to keep you mouth shut and be thought a fool...
16 November 2012 04:58 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno That sounds like smart but selfish or shy :P
16 November 2012 04:04 pm

Eyal Halamish Is the quiet one the one who does not know how to ask or the one who is actually smarter than us all?
16 November 2012 04:01 pm

Adrian Camm

By taking ourselves less seriously & putting things in perspective

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Eyal Halamish jokes, lots more jokes and comedy festivals. comedian police officers?
16 November 2012 04:02 pm

Colin Simpson Good philosophy overall - life is too absurd to take too seriously
15 November 2012 10:04 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno A beautifuly blurry line between efficiency, gaming the system and cheating ;)
15 November 2012 01:47 pm

Dan Donahoo

By recognising that we don't always need to know the end goal. But investing in projects because they offer a process that leads us somewhere, but we don't know exactly where. Playfulness is about joyfulness and whimsy and being able to offer of yourself and the experience you have without care or concern of judgement or expectation. To be more playful, we need to be more child like. If we invest in our city in a child-centred way, we will make it a more playful space.

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Eyal Halamish pair investment to their gains?
16 November 2012 04:32 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno That's why we need alternative sources of funding, I think crowd sourcing is great for open ended projects.
16 November 2012 04:05 pm

Eyal Halamish Maybe they get to eat the beans as a return on their investment ;P
16 November 2012 04:03 pm

Dan Donahoo

We could all attend as many Pop Up Playground events as possible. Those guys know how to play! http://popupplayground.com.au

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Colin Simpson This is the preventer
16 November 2012 04:58 pm

Eyal Halamish add a pop-up bbq and i'm there...except food is the silent preventer of more gameplay.
16 November 2012 04:04 pm

Colin Simpson Fair call, I should have said that getting bums on seats has more to do with the success and sustainability of these kinds of initiatives. Its one thing to say we need x, y and z in a city but it has to be backed up with getting out the door and participating.
16 November 2012 02:51 pm

Dan Donahoo

We could all attend as many Pop Up Playground events as possible. Those guys know how to play! http://popupplayground.com.au

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JC "oddgoo" Moreno Do you know of similar groups but in Sydney or country-wide? I went to the website and it does seem a bit obtuse and Melbourne centred.
16 November 2012 12:04 pm

Dan Donahoo I agree Marigo - games need to be simple and accessible...lots if experimenting in that space to be done...we are all learning...
15 November 2012 08:26 am

Marigo Raftopoulos Dan, I love Pop Up Playground, however some of the games are too inaccessible. If public games are too complicated they risk being labeled elitist - games for gamers. Thoughts?
14 November 2012 07:01 pm

Steffen P Walz

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Colin Simpson How do you pronounce that Steffen
16 November 2012 04:59 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno

-*Idea*- "Garbage Quest" Gamification holds many keys - According to this: http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/COMMUNITYSERVICES/COMMUNITYSAFETY/Pages/SafeCitycameras.aspx, there are 53 security cameras in the city, why not use and show their footage in a gameful way? Use image recognition to identify garbage (as small, stationary objects) and show a score in a screen. The less garbage the more points! Clean something and you get a QR code that gives you points (that could serve as discounts towards goverment payments for example). Though this dances a little bit with an orwellian landscape of citizen-monitoring!

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Eyal Halamish You should check out the Garbage Warrior. he's all about this: http://www.garbagewarrior.com/
16 November 2012 04:05 pm

Colin Simpson Commercial tv seems to have decided already that they're a great source of cheap content.
15 November 2012 10:33 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno Indeed! Some security cameras are already open and online like this one: http://www.portofmelbourne.com/shipping/webcams/smc_cam4.aspx . How can we use such feeds in interesting ways beyond simply being an audience?
15 November 2012 02:37 pm

Ivo Gormley

set up GoodGym to help get people meeting new people and doing good together

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Colin Simpson Not for money please
16 November 2012 05:00 pm

Eyal Halamish Can you link the GoodGym to existing gyms like fitness first or good health? a lot of people..well, me, have existing gym memberships and want to workout and make impact!
16 November 2012 04:06 pm

Colin Simpson Do you have a setup guide Ivo? Can't see anything on your website. How do you manage public liability for participants?
16 November 2012 03:34 pm

Ivo Gormley

organise a huge game of capture the flag aross cbd at night

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Colin Simpson Mmmm pie
16 November 2012 05:00 pm

Eyal Halamish capture the pie and smash it in your opponents face! then use your laser to scan their qr code for a point. hey?
16 November 2012 04:07 pm

Adelle Lin Maybe capture the pie might work better
16 November 2012 02:49 pm

Dan Donahoo

I'm sitting here at the Games Arcade set up...and there are noises and images and things happening. It reminds me of a key part of early childhood learning through play - and the strong focus on sensory play. We need to build sensory environments to make a city more playful - we need more water to touch and run in (like the water wall at the art gallery), we need sand pits and touchscreens and more music (like the recent spate of orchestral flash mobs in Europe) - creating sensory spaces will help people be more playful...

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Eyal Halamish Large rubber boxes to climb in the playground.
16 November 2012 04:07 pm

Colin Simpson Adult sized playgrounds in the cbd
15 November 2012 10:39 pm

Colin Simpson Triggered sound sculptures can do this well - or scent sculptures could also be fun
15 November 2012 10:38 pm

Dan Donahoo

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Colin Simpson Odd
16 November 2012 05:00 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno What's with this empty comment bug anyway?
16 November 2012 03:46 pm

Hamish Curry

Use existing physical & SM networks to make 'spaces' surprising & foster more curiosity for all ages

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Colin Simpson It rocks
16 November 2012 05:00 pm

Eyal Halamish yes!
16 November 2012 04:10 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno Hey thats not too bad divided between 20 peeps.
16 November 2012 03:47 pm

Hamish Curry

I've always wanted to run a Find the Future ARG in the Library over a whole night

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Eyal Halamish We'll get you a visa JC, so we can do this more often. Btw, maybe deloitte digital can sponsor you?
16 November 2012 04:33 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno Oh I wish I lived in Melbourne!
16 November 2012 03:47 pm

Eyal Halamish Yes, Night at the museum!
16 November 2012 12:08 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno

I would like to see the idea of positive gamification and competition applied to multiple levels of society, from streets vs streets, neighbourhoods vs neighbourhoods, cities vs cities, all bathing in a tribal strive for being the happiest, most attractive, distinguished and friendly.

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Eyal Halamish I am actually a firm believer of organic community organising by city-blocks. We need neighbourhood meetups on cul-de-sacs.
16 November 2012 04:34 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno No worries Adelle, you are excused :)
16 November 2012 03:47 pm

Eyal Halamish If it means I get to talk to the sweet 80 year old italian lady who lives next door for more time, then I am soo in.
16 November 2012 12:09 pm

Adelle Lin

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Colin Simpson Rings on lampposts
16 November 2012 05:01 pm

Eyal Halamish gymnastic horses to somersault off of mid laneway.
16 November 2012 03:50 pm

Colin Simpson Hopscotch footpaths
15 November 2012 10:42 pm

Dan Donahoo

Have Chad create Games Arcades all over Melbourne

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Eyal Halamish Chad, Keita and Gabe Zicherman pls ;p
16 November 2012 03:49 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno I'll. never forget that feeling when I first played the original katamari damacy 7 years ago, it was one of those games that I just wanted to show everyone, so much freshness!
16 November 2012 03:49 pm

Colin Simpson Chad and Keita pls
16 November 2012 11:27 am

Andrew Hiskens

City-wide hide and seek?

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Eyal Halamish Can you develop a simultaneous virtual world experiencing the same thing so the virtual gamers and the real-world gamers can jump in?
16 November 2012 04:37 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno Those timers could be recognised with AR and put some amazing info in top, like number of people alive in the team and overall scoring,
16 November 2012 04:24 pm

Eyal Halamish Should we have timers on the top of the clocks in town?
16 November 2012 04:15 pm

Colin Simpson

I've always wanted drop-in creative spaces, where you pay $5 an hour (or whatever) and have access to a range of resources - art/music/tech - to just create with. All works stay on premises, displayed in the window?

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JC "oddgoo" Moreno I really really like these ideas combined. But if the house appropriates the works perhaps there shouldn't be a fee. The league of geeks seems to have a very related model!
16 November 2012 04:07 pm

Eyal Halamish Mate, awesome! There's something about a junk collective / salvos type co-op, where you can mine people's garbage and turn it into treasure.
16 November 2012 03:49 pm

Stanley Yip

More playgrounds! Giant LEGO blocks for all!

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Eyal Halamish With rubber pads and stick stuff to connect them in ways theyve never been connected before!!!
16 November 2012 04:16 pm

Colin Simpson Normal sized Lego bricks or giant ones? I think the tall guy from Top Gear (James May) built a real house from Lego for a show about toys once.
16 November 2012 03:38 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno How amazing would it be to have a full building made of Lego blocks that people could go and help modify/ build?
16 November 2012 02:21 pm

Stanley Yip

Spontaneous music. Sydney did this I think last year where pianos were put in high traffic public areas. People just started playing them. Was nice to hear piano music amoungst all the city sounds.

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Eyal Halamish Or the singing trash can? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmiJSJAkiZc
16 November 2012 04:18 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno Like the Volkswagen musical staircase! Which made people use the stairs more than the escalators: http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?feature=player_embedded
16 November 2012 02:18 pm

Eyal Halamish Tram sessions. More tram sessions. http://www.tramsessions.com/
16 November 2012 12:11 pm

Stanley Yip

Madate hugs and smiles as the currency for a day. For instance that coffee there will cost you 2 hugs and a smile.

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Eyal Halamish Smiles put endorphins into your body to improve your experience.
16 November 2012 04:18 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno Actually thinking about smiles a bit more, they are such powerful things by themselves to create positiveness around you, and humour goes hand in hand with playfulness. Here's to random acts and pop-ups of funny! And a reminder to myself to smile more.
16 November 2012 03:33 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno Good idea for a post-scarcity type society!
16 November 2012 02:16 pm

Eyal Halamish

Impromptu street games. Similar to street theatre

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JC "oddgoo" Moreno King and Queen? That reminds me of the city wide pervarsive GPS-enabled Chess, here is a paper about it: http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/gaips/component/gaips/publications/showPublicationPdf?pid=54
16 November 2012 05:04 pm

Eyal Halamish yep, or a line like 4square with king, queen, jack and toilet. bounce
16 November 2012 04:19 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno Yes, it would be great if the next games4change actually had an extra activity in the open that engaged the passerbys
16 November 2012 04:07 pm

Eyal Halamish

City blocks with padded walls.

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JC "oddgoo" Moreno Its ok, it didnt give me points. (the last one)
16 November 2012 05:05 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno Oops, please disregard that last comment.
16 November 2012 05:05 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno Ahhh this iffy comments!
16 November 2012 05:05 pm

Eyal Halamish

Host an international Games for Change Summit here!!

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JC "oddgoo" Moreno My sisters husband is part of that group started by al gore which is trying to educate about Climate Change, so that was part of the Gdc?
16 November 2012 04:39 pm

Eyal Halamish I also think there was more of a diversity of people. but it was much larger and was the 7th one. this one will grow, i'm sure.
16 November 2012 04:39 pm

Eyal Halamish Also, the one I went to had Al Gore speaking, so it was pretty wild
16 November 2012 04:38 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno

I will use space to also further expand on my ideas, it will be great even as a personal registry :), and I hope someone finds any value in them: Here is the first one, a physical space where you build up a creature that has parts embedded with sensors. It can be big and built up collaboratively, the interesting part is that it will be linked to an automatic qr code generator that gives you a living and animated version of the character you built for your phone.

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JC "oddgoo" Moreno Hah thank you, I've definitely encountered so many new spaces and creative people that I will keep in mind for the future, it's really empowering to find like minded people who share the passion for the new and playful.
16 November 2012 04:27 pm

Eyal Halamish You guys should team up and take it to the MIT media game lab. They'll fund and put research dollars into it....
16 November 2012 03:45 pm

Eyal Halamish Have you checked out Alan Kwan's game? Memory storage linked to QR code may be a game winner.
16 November 2012 03:44 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno

A giant tug of war; with a sensor in the middle that interacts with giant visuals depending on the winning team. Do you think people would take sides evenly and that fun would develop?

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JC "oddgoo" Moreno I guess at this point im thinking a lot in terms of Vivid Sydney, and I just imagined this giant crazy flashing ear with fluorecent cerum.
16 November 2012 04:49 pm

Eyal Halamish Dunno about ear cleaning, can we use this to achieve something with social impact...like pulling something out of a ditch?
16 November 2012 04:39 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno A giant game of ear cleaning with a giant cottonette! It could even be educational.
16 November 2012 03:50 pm

Eyal Halamish

Create a media lab at RMIT which is similar to the MIT Media Lab

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Colin Simpson I'll go
16 November 2012 05:03 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno Ah thank you! Will Check it out.
16 November 2012 04:48 pm

Eyal Halamish MIT lab in Sydney for you?
16 November 2012 04:40 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno

Dress silly day! Everyone could come out with great, free-spirited outfits. Oh wait! That's Halloween. But Halloween is usually constrained to nightclubs and alcohol.

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JC "oddgoo" Moreno Well, the playful atmosphere established by this conference shows more of an "all ages" feeling, and Halloween, I feel, its too linked to being drunk at nightparties.
16 November 2012 05:06 pm

Colin Simpson Constrained?
16 November 2012 05:01 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno It reminds me of the no pants flash mobs at New York.
16 November 2012 04:44 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno

Im sorry but it seems like the point system is sadly not working anymore? or is it a thread vs comment ratio thing?

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Colin Simpson Might need to do a manual count
16 November 2012 05:02 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno Nope, it doesnt seem to be that!
16 November 2012 04:53 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno

Taking on Keita's Dodgeball idea, Id like to see widespread touch panels on the floor that act as the playing field.

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Colin Simpson That occasionally trapdoor
16 November 2012 05:02 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno

Also check out the International Colour Run! thecolorrun.com/australia/

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JC "oddgoo" Moreno Checking now, its coming to Sydney next year.
16 November 2012 04:59 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno

Imagine, in a more friendly world, hundreds of cheap joggobots flying around helping people find their way, carry groceries and more.

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JC "oddgoo" Moreno Do you see an autobot-filled city as scary or pretty?
16 November 2012 05:03 pm