Co-design a Neighborhood
Role:
Concept
Game design
Coding
3D modelling
Diagram
Info:
Columbia 2019 Fall MetaTool
Program: Game
Teammate: Andrew Keung
Instructor: Dan Taeyoung
Tools:
Rhino
Grasshopper
reacTIVision
Aftereffect
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Overview
What aspects of tangible objects used in the co-design process can be strategically designed to create affordances and metaphors that build trust and foster collaboration between different disciplines?
GAME OF COLLABORATION
A. Role Play
Each of the players will pick up a role that will have different goals, they are not necessarily conflicting though. It is up to you and 3 other friends to work together (or not) to put these elements together to make a neighborhood.

People with different gaols work collaboratively
GAME OF COLLABORATION
B. Independent or Collaborate?
The neighborhood will consist of houses, apartments, civic buildings, and parks. If you decide to make the neighborhood by yourself, each of you will make a house. The more people you collaborate with, the more possible kinds of items you could make. But you have to negotiate to achieve your own goal.

The more people you collaborate with, the more achievement you can have as a team
GAME OF COLLABORATION
C. Learn, Place, and Confirm
Each of the players will have three cards, the first one is the "role" card. It is the goal you want to achieve in the end, but others don't know. The second card is "Place" card, you negotiate with your teammate and if both(all) of you agreed on making one thing, you could place the card near each other to let the object appear. The third card is "Make" card, all of the players has to flip the card together to confirm your decision.

Physical cards with different functions

Discuss, negotiate and place cards together to make a neighborhood
GAME OF COLLABORATION
D. Let's play it!
During the review and the exhibition, reviewers and audiences were invited to participate in the game. They build a community with houses, apartments, and a large park.

Play alone, 1 player
"Place"

"Confirm"

Collaborated, 2 players
"Place"

"Confirm"

Collaborated, 4 players
"Place"

"Confirm"


Exhibition at GSAPP, Dec 2019