The smartphone game People in Love is presented for the first time: the theme: urban design & happines, the problem about smart cities, and then also some game play screens.

1. People in Love
Pietro Polsinelli
@ppolsinelli
Daniele Giardini
@DanieleGiardini
Presented at Game Happens
2014 – Genoa, Italy.

2. Urban design &
quality of life

3. Urban
space is
the space
where cars
go through,
the faster
the better

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5. "Smart cities" are
mainly an IBM, Cisco
& Siemens project.
The rhetoric of the
Smart City is entirely
fabricated by
corporations:
there are no citizens
behind it
Urban reformation is today often associated with
the Smart City (pseudo) concept.
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6. … OR …
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7. … the transformation of space can impact social behavior.
Through the development of green space, libraries, public
parks, and pedestrian friendly streets, Penalosa helped
transform Bogota into a public city.

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10. Urban change can be led by
people.
Only if people find ways to
express their needs and ideals.
Can we game designers help?

11. Genoa has an UR monster: the Sopraelevata

12. OR …

13. A great read.

14. Tell people: make
them play urban
committees
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15. Urban design & (un)happyness:
People in Love

17. The factory problem: good, bad, polluting, clean,
dignified workplace, place of slavery...
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18. City dump
/
recycling
center
Concrete open
air sewers
/
swimmable
water canal

19. Beginning gameplay.
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20. My twitter stream is mostly
dedicated to game design:
http://twitter.com/ppolsinelli
A blog on game design
http://designagame.eu