{"id":278,"date":"2010-10-04T22:43:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T11:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbancodemakers.net\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2010-10-13T17:37:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T06:37:09","slug":"278","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.urbancodemakers.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/04\/278\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_287\" style=\"width: 487px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/urbancodemakers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/picture-121.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-287\" class=\"size-full wp-image-287\" src=\"http:\/\/urbancodemakers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/picture-121.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Play transforms urban space<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I, think of the city I do not think of Hoddle\u2019s grid.<\/p>\n<p>I  remember walking through the city weaving my way through the arcades  and shops trying to reach my destination with the smallest possible  exposure to the sky. \u00a0It was neither the rain nor the sun that dictated  my route but the rules of play.<\/p>\n<p>On  different days my path would take its own diversions \u2013 seeking  different pleasures the rich aromas of coffee roasting and chocolate  shops, hidden record bars and book traders, the smell of spicy curries  or leather shoes. \u00a0Some days speed would be important whilst on other  days stealth &#8230;but never the streets of Hoddles grid.<\/p>\n<p>The  playground is everywhere in our streets and our city it is created when  we change the rules. The city is transformed when we change our point  of view.<\/p>\n<p>Do  not look for it in the city in the soulless data of the Locative  Urbanist or the opaque musings of the Master Codemaker. \u00a0Once I though  them great architects, men of vision but since the virus I question  their motives.<\/p>\n<p>We must redefine the city through event.<br \/>\nThe  question is how do you, the player, use games to create new kinds of  relationships and new ways to experience the complexity of urban space?<br \/>\nDocument and post your theories. Hurry there may not be much time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/urbancodemakers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/crateman_BourkeStreet20081.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-281\" src=\"http:\/\/urbancodemakers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/crateman_BourkeStreet20081.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.cratemen.com\/\" width=\"452\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I, think of the city I do not think of Hoddle\u2019s grid. I remember walking through the city weaving my way through the arcades and shops trying to reach my destination with the smallest possible exposure to the sky. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbancodemakers.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/04\/278\/\"> More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.urbancodemakers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.urbancodemakers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.urbancodemakers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.urbancodemakers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.urbancodemakers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.urbancodemakers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"http:\/\/www.urbancodemakers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.urbancodemakers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.urbancodemakers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.urbancodemakers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}