18. The playful city: Citizens making the smart city

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. 1. The playful citizen: An introduction 9
4. Part I Ludo-literacies
5. Introduction to Part I 33
6. 2. Engagement in play, engagement in politics : Playing political video games 36
7. 3. Analytical game design : Game-making as a cultural technique in a gamified society 56
8. 4. Re-thinking the social documentary 73
9. 5. Collapsus, or how to make players become ecological citizens 92
10. 6. The broken toy tactic: Clockwork worlds and activist games 121
11. 7. Video games and the engaged citizen : On the ambiguity of digital play 138
12. Part II Ludo-epistemologies
13. Introduction to Part II 159
14. 8. Public laboratory: Play and civic engagement 162
15. 9. Sensing the air and experimenting with environmental citizenship 175
16. 10. Biohacking: Playing with technology 195
17. 11. Ludo-epistemology: Playing with the rules in citizen science games 217
18. 12. The playful scientist: Stimulating playful communities for science practice 235
19. 13. Laborious playgrounds : Citizen science games as new modes of work/play in the digital age 255
20. Part III Ludo-politics
21. Introduction to Part III 275
22. 14. On participatory politics as a game changer and the politics of participation 279
23. 15. Playing with politics: Memory, orientation, and tactility 291
24. 16. Meaningful inefficiencies : Resisting the logic of technological efficiency in the design of civic systems 310
25. 17. Permanent revolution: Occupying democracy 335
26. 18. The playful city: Citizens making the smart city 349
27. 19. Dissent at a distance 370
28. 20. Playing with power : Casual politicking as a new frame for political analysis 387
29. Index of names 420
30. Index of subjects 425