GAME OF THE BLOCKS

Game of The Blocks – is an educational role board game which gathers adults and children aged 8+ and enables learn more about city planning, urban processes, and negotiations within the city between different groups of interest. The game is between two teams of 6 participants. Each team gets the tasks according to roles of Developer, Landscape planner, Urban planner, Major, Activist, and Entrepreneur. All together participants try to build the city comfortable for everyone. To check whether the tasks were successfully accomplishment, the game finishes with the group discussion and analysis based on 12 public space quality criteria by Gehl Architects.

The game is being tested on different workshops and community events and will be upgraded in 2017.

Category

Children's Geographies

Date published

16.07.2017