áreas de riscos

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áreas de riscos
the city as a playful space

System of ubiquitous games for mobile devices that focuses on people’s routes and places in the city.

It was based on the concept of rizhome, emergence and subjective relations between people and urban space.

During the process, Riscos came first and Áreas was incorporated after a reinterpretation, generating the idea of a games system composed of both. Áreas de Riscos is about a cartographic construction of places and routes, exploring errancy and otherness of people in the urban space, adopted as playful space. Players enter very few data about themselves, so that their identity in the game is the graphics that they generate. In Riscos, players mark their physical position in the map. Each point of marking is connected to the previous, evidencing the player’s routes during the day. There is interaction between the players when their routes get crossed, and they can either form a group, sharing their distances, or begin a conflict, trying to break the other’s line. Áreas focuses on collaboration and overlapping of places. Players mark their areas according to their georeferenced position, creating circles over the map. When areas of different players are near each other and overlap, they form an intersection, which is the main point of the game. As a conclusion, Riscos and Áreas are complementary in the sense that, working as a system, they report people’s tactics and everyday practices, forming poetic, complex, emergent and unexpected cartographies of the city.

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