The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban Planning

Tools for Design, Teaching, and Research
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-08432-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 536 g

The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban Planning aims to identify and showcase the rich diversity of games, including: simulation games, game-like approaches, game scenarios, and gamification processes for teaching/learning, design and research in architecture and urban planning.

This collection creates an opportunity for exchange and reflection on games in architecture and urban planning. Theoretical discussions, descriptive accounts, and case studies presenting empirical evidence are featured; combined with reflections, constructive critical analysis, discussions of connections, and various influences on this field.

Twenty-eight international contributors have come together from eleven countries and five continents to present their studies on games in architecture and urban planning, pose new questions, and advocate for innovative perspectives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brkovi¿ Dodig, Marta

Brkovic Dodig, Marta

Groat, Linda N.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 – Introduction – Architecture and Urban Planning? Game On!

Games as Tools for Teaching/Learning, Design and Research in Architecture and Urban

Planning

Marta Brkovic Dodig and Linda N. Groat

PART I – (CO)-DESIGN GAMES

Chapter 2 – Room for play in architecture – die Baupiloten architectural co-design games

Susanne Hofmann

Chapter 3 – Games are Political - Challenging municipal collaborative practices for

sustainable urban transition through game co-design

Mette Agger Eriksen

Maria Hellström Reimer

Majken Toftager Larsen

Chapter 4 – Everyday as an open-ended material in architectural design games

Christina Lundsgaard

Eva Brandt

PART II – (CO)-DESIGN AND EDUCATIONAL GAMES

Chapter 5 – Playing Pretend: An Interview with Prof. Steven Mankouce

Kimia Erfani

Marta Brkovic Dodig

Linda Groat

Steven Mankouche

Chapter 6 – ScarCity Game: The Pedagogy of Scarce Design Processes

Axel Becerra Santacruz

Chapter 7 – The World of Energy Games

Malini Srivastava

PART III – EDUCATIONAL GAMES

Chapter 8 – Architecture as a gaming board: Pervasive energy games

Malini Srivastava

Chapter 9 – Urbanity: Developing children’s critical thinking through urban educational game

Eszter Tóth

Anna Szilágyi-Nagy

Chapter 10 – Design as Crossword puzzle solving: the role of game in merging research and design

Seyed Ali Javid

Chapter 11 – The Modern Architecture Game: A learning tool on modern architecture history for the international audience

NEXT Architects

PART IV – EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH GAMES

Chapter 12 – Energy geogame e-footprints prototype designed to collect data about human behavior in built environments

Alenka Poplin

Chapter 13 – Spector – The Sustainability Inspector: Teaching, learning and evaluation through a participatory and exploratory game

Marta Brkovic Dodig

Prue Chiles

PART V – RESEARCH GAMES

Chapter 14 – Reversing the co-design process: Co-design tools for post occupancy evaluation

Christina Lundsgaard

PART VI (CO)-DESIGN, EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH GAMES

Chapter 15 – The Sorting Task: Its versatility and adaptability in research, teaching and practice

Linda N. Groat

Matthew Niermann

Brian Schermer

Chapter 16 – Games as Urban Agora: An Analysis of Three Games as Research, Co-design and Educational Tools

An

Über Autor(innen)

Marta Brkovic Dodig is Assistant Professor at Union University Nikola Tesla in Belgrade, Serbia. She has been researching, teaching and practicing architecture in Serbia, England, Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, and the USA. Her main interests lie in sustainable design, learning environments design and pedagogic architecture, participatory architecture, research and design methods in architecture, architecture and built environment education, and games in architecture and urban planning. Currently, she holds the Alexander von Humboldt PostDoc position at the Chair for Urban Design and Urban Development, TU Berlin, Germany, where she explores international policy and practice in built environment education for children and young people.

Linda N. Groat is Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. Her areas of expertise include: environmental meaning, participatory processes in design, empirical aesthetics, place theory, and gender and minority issues in architectural education. Her special focus in doctoral education has been on research design and methods; and her co-authored book, Architectural Research Methods (2002, 2nd edition 2013, both editions in Chinese) is used both in the US and internationally. Her research has been published widely to reach both professional and academic audiences in journals such as: Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Journal of Architectural Education, and Journal of Environmental Psychology.