What if anyone could freely download their digital neighborhood, play out different future scenarios and see the effects on environmental sustainability & livability ? And what if they could tell you what they actually wanted, didn't want, and why? What if everyone in your community was doing this, exchanging ideas with each other ?
A team at Concordia’s Next Generation Cities Institute has recently created a playable prototype of this vision. It’s called City Player and is aimed at using gamification techniques to engage the attention of citizens, collecting rich information from them about their desires for their own neighborhood, and then providing that to urban planners and other stakeholders who are planning future developments in that area.
The next steps are to go beyond this initial prototype and create a pilot project that can be deployed at the end of 2025. Concordia is partnering with ARTM (Autorité Régionale de Transport Métropolitain) and OCPM (Office de Consultation Publique de Montreal) to do this, focusing on neighborhoods and use-cases that are important to the city of Montreal.
The webinar will begin with a look at Concordia’s research work on creating digital twins, given by Prof. Ursula Eicker. Then Chris Gibbs will give a demo of the City Player prototype, followed by a deep-dive on how it has been built, and explaining the next steps involved in making the pilot project.
Collecting bottom-up feedback has never been this fun!
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