This is the second part of a post about AJI, a self-commissioned research project about public protests. Read the first post or continue reading below. Looking back on the talks we gave in the past few years, they’re obviously (and naturally) precedents for what we’re doing with AJI now. I’m really happy we’re returning to the […]
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Notes on project AJI (part 2)
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Tagged agency, AJI, demonstrations, events, open ended play, piazzaplussocialmedia, protests, public games, resistance, riots, rituals, self-regulation, standing man
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Notes on project AJI (part 1)
Next to our work with clients, we regularly initiate research projects. Their aim is to investigate subjects in the fields of society, politics, policy etc. that spark our interest. We use our research projects to contribute to debates in these areas by creating playable prototypes. At the moment, we are working on AJI. This is […]
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Tagged AJI, Berlin, civil disobedience, Dan Hill, DirenGeziPark, Istanbul, Kottbusser Tor, kotti, piazzaplussocialmedia, Turkey
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‘Playful Design for Activism’ at E‑Motive Day 2015
At the start of this year I was invited to demo Standing and to speak at E‑Motive Day, a joining of innovative civil society organisations interested in (as they put it) North-South exchanges. In my lecture I talked about how Standing works and why it is interesting for civil society organisations (or NGOs). I also […]
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Tagged activism, Arab Spring, civil disobedience, Civil Rights Movement, civil society organisations, clicktivism, digital transformation, E-Motive, Erdem Gunduz, Gezi Park, Istanbul, Mediamatic, NGOs, nonviolent protest, Play Matters, playful design, Provo, Rules of Play, salvador breed, slacktivism, Standing, The Office, Thunderclap
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Announcing Standing – an app for playful activism
Today we are making Standing available for iPhone. Standing is an app for playful activism, which we have been working on intermittently since we first announced it back in August 2013. We are pleased to have it out there and are excited to see what people will do with it. With Standing, you can stand still […]
Week 247
We focused on two projects this week: SHIJIMI and Standing (formerly known as AJI). For SHIJIMI, we wrote a proposal and had a meeting with Heijmans and Rezone to discuss it and other documents drafted earlier by them. Each is a position paper of sorts, and next we need to merge them all into one thing […]
Week 243
Looking at my log for last week it’s clear a lot has been going on; work continued on Standing (codename AJI) and we (mainly Alper) did some support work on Beestenbende. In the meantime we are starting up new projects; one is codenamed KEGANI, a collaboration between us and Subalekha who resides in NYC. We […]
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Tagged AJI, Beestenbende, Dirk Vis, Heijmans, HKU, Joris Weijdom, KEGANI, MAPLAB, Mare, Rezone, Standing, Subalekha Udayasankar, Utrecht School of the Arts
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Week 241
An intense week, not in the last place because of Alper’s physical presence at the Utrecht studio for the whole week. It was time for another OKR review and we prefer to do those live in meatspace. As always, we graded ourselves, came to some harsh realisations and adjusted course accordingly. Building an applied game […]
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Tagged AJI, climate change, Ianus Keller, Joris Dormans, KAZUNOKO, Netrunner, Niels 't Hooft, NYC, OKRs, Sebastian Deterding, Simon Scheiber, Standing, The Village, Tupil, Vechtclub XL, Vuurlinie
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Week 240
Last week was a solid week of more work on all the things we worked on the week before. The European proposal we are collaborating on is taking a lot of attention. AJI is continuing apace with what may very well be the penultimate sprint before the app goes to the store. We wrote up our […]
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Tagged AJI, gamification, Lift 14, Lift Conference, OKR, Vechtclub XL, Vrij Nederland
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Notes on project AJI (part 3)
This is the third and final part of a post about AJI, a self-commissioned research project about public protests. Read the first and second post or continue reading below. The most important idea is that a protest is a performance of civic resistance and solidarity and as such it has a broad swath of spectators who […]