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EkimGame Specifications
‘Play Almere Haven’ is an evolutionary city game.
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Designing the Setting for ‘Play Almere Haven’
The play setting is the game table representing Almere Haven’s dedicated site for the future growth, Sportpark de Wierden.
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A holistic Urban Vision from an Incremental Process?
Play Almere Haven outcomes provide an answer to our initial question whether a design order and vision would occur as a result of…
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Almere Haven Players
We configured ‘Play Almere Haven’ as a multiplayer interactive city game.
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Aim of the Game
Play Almere Haven
The main question we were trying to answer in the Wierden experiment was whether a self-organizing urban development process could…
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‘Play Almere Haven’ Process
In 13 rounds, players located the predefined program; 400 residents mixed with work and retail spaces.
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Can Play Almere Haven be implemented in reality?
As stated in the hypothesis earlier, the outcome is not supposed to be leading into a legal urban master plan. Although the final…
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Almere Haven’s Urban Question
The city of Almere needs to expand the Haven district through an open and collaborative process engaging current and possible future…
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‘Play Almere Haven’ Outcomes
Play process revealed diverse design trends emerging along the city game process. Evaluating the final phase of the development, we…
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What happened in Almere the meantime?
When this city game experiment was created in 2008, there were two upcoming growth plans in Almere: