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Description

The Playable City concept has captured the imagination of cities across the globe, offering a new way
of connecting people, and thinking about the city. It is a framework which supports the future of the
city with the contribution of artists and creatives. They organize workshops and assign an award winner
with the aim to create a global community of cities and generate new models of citizen engagement.

“Playable City” is a place where citizens are the enabler of the revolution, they are motivated and held
together by the idea that technology can be human, while the administration opens to residents and
visitors to reconfigure and rewrite services, places and the collective story. The aim of Playable cities is
to create a cross-disciplinary collaboration with urban designers, policy makers and creative facilitators
to transform the city through play, a series of innovative creative/ technology driven projects which
have a huge impact on the society, in the world itself.

All projects are thought in terms of sustainability, through the interaction and creative installations is
possible to unlocks a social dialogue, bringing the citizens into a city development conversation one
which will vary in each location.

Major achievements

The impact of this big project is worldwide (both social and cultural)

- it has reached more than 1 million of people, 9 metropolis in 5 continents with the participation of 51
creatives and 74 partners in the world.

- They have staged workshops and installed previous Playable City Award winners, inspiring new
partnerships and future interventions – from Austin to Bordeaux, Singapore to York.

Social impact:
connecting people and communities