These are the slides for my presentation at Reboot 10 on 27 June 2008 in Copenhagen, Denmark. In brief, it describes the theoretical basis for a type of game I foresee – one that allows people to make arguments in the form of dynamic models that use the city as their platform. The second part consists of sketches for a few of these so-called "urban procedural rhetorics" of my own design.

1. Urban Procedural
Rhetorics
Kars Alfrink – Leapfrog – Reboot 10

2. hello

3. gramschap.nl/provo/chrono/wit.jpg

4. thesis

5. “[…] the street finds its own
uses for things”
—William Gibson

6. flickr.com/photos/mallix/2241056021/

7. flickr.com/photos/clarkmackey/462381004/

8. flickr.com/photos/revcyborg/52850636/ flickr.com/photos/piccadillywilson/330940825/

9. play

10. “The opposite of play is not
work. It’s depression.”
—Brian Sutton-Smith

11. “Play is free movement within
a more rigid structure.”
—Salen Zimmerman