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SUMMARY:Playmakers - Co-design\, speculative fiction and pervasive games t
 o reinvent urban spaces
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DESCRIPTION:Gabriele Ferri\nUniversity of Indianahttp://crit.soic.indiana.
 edu/\nThe design of "pervasive urban narratives" is a creative practice al
 lowing experimental studies on how places are perceived\, interacted with 
 and possibly reimagined. I will present two recent projects of mine – "3
 Cities" (Salvador\, Ferri\, 2013) and "Cognoscenti" (Ferri et al.\, 2015) 
 – that were set in urban spaces and prompted players to explore their su
 rroundings by leveraging place-specific interactions. Combining game-like 
 rules with Internet-of-Things devices as well as other everyday devices su
 ch as cameras and smartphones\, 3Cities and Cognoscenti engaged participan
 ts in a playful experience and led them to critically rethink public space
 s. These projects are part of my ongoing "Research-through-Design" practic
 e and\, in this presentation\, I will discuss their theoretical framing (i
 nteractive storytelling\, pervasive experiences\, design fictions\, Third 
 Wave HCI)\, creative process (co-design\, speculative workshops)\, data co
 llection and analysis\, and perspectives for future developments.\nGabriel
 e Ferri is postdoctoral researcher at the Cultural Research In Technology 
 (CRIT) group at Indiana University (Bloomington\, IN\, USA)\, and is membe
 r of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing (Intel I
 STC-Social). He co-curated the volume “Interactive Digital Narrative: Hi
 story\, Theory and Practice” (2015) for Routledge http://www.routledge.c
 om/books/details/9781138782396/ and has designed pervasive urban games pla
 yed in the USA\, UK\, Spain and Italy. He holds a Ph.D. in Semiotics from 
 the University of Bologna\, Italy / SUM Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane
 \, and he was Visiting Researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology\,
  Atlanta\, USA.
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