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Yearly Archives: 2012

Week 175

By Kars | Published: December 21, 2012

And with that, my last work­ing day of 2012 comes to an end. We’re clos­ing shop for the next week and will be back in the sad­dle on Jan­u­ary 2nd. But before I go, one last set of notes on what we did this week. The vast major­i­ty of my time was tak­en up by KAIGARA. […]

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Week 174

By Kars | Published: December 17, 2012

The penul­ti­mate work­week of the year turned out rather packed with work on two new projects—the afore­men­tioned HIRAME and now also KAIGARA, for which con­tracts were signed mid­way through the week. KAIGARA is game con­cept devel­op­ment for a multi­na­tion­al company—our biggest client to date in fact, so I am quite pleased. I’ll wait with shar­ing particulars […]

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Ignite Berlin on New Games and Wild Play

By Alper | Published: December 11, 2012

Before I went on my trip to Chi­na and Aus­tralia I had an Ignite to give here in Berlin. To do that I threw all of our think­ing of the past cou­ple of years on the floor (lit­er­al­ly because my post-its would­n’t stick to the wall behind me) and syn­the­sized it into some­thing that reflects […]

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Week 173

By Kars | Published: December 10, 2012

Last week Alper vis­it­ed Moscow to par­tic­i­pate in Urban Forum. He tells me he talked about “data and gen­er­a­tiv­i­ty as a prac­tice for inno­v­a­tive cities.” Mean­while I sol­diered on in the Utrecht stu­dio with half a jeal­ous eye on his Insta­gram feed. On Mon­day I act­ed as sound­ing board for Zineb and Chris. As mentioned […]

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Week 172

By Kars | Published: December 5, 2012

Woah, almost fell off the horse there—it’s Wednes­day and I haven’t writ­ten up last weeks notes yet. So real quick, let me tell you what hap­pened. Most notably, I fin­ished writ­ing my Game­ful World chap­ter. I then added ref­er­ences and col­lect­ed images. After one last proof­read I sent it to the edi­tors one day short […]

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‘New Games for a Resilient Society’ at TEDxUtrecht 2012

By Kars | Published: November 26, 2012

A few weeks ago I pre­sent­ed at TEDx­Utrecht. I talked about crises, unknown-unknowns and the notion of anti-fragility—how we might be bet­ter able to deal with the unpre­dictable if we were to hone our impro­vi­sa­tion skills. To this end, I sug­gest a spe­cif­ic class of games as train­ing grounds, for which I bor­row the term […]

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Week 171

By Kars | Published: November 26, 2012

This week start­ed with a two-day work­shop with Jeroen van Mas­trigt of WLYW for a start­up. We played and eval­u­at­ed their game, and sub­se­quent­ly sug­gest­ed a redesign con­sist­ing of the same parts but recom­bined to be more dynam­ic and gen­er­a­tive. Writ­ing on my Game­ful World chap­ter con­tin­ued. There was a slight hic­cup on Tues­day but […]

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Week 170

By Kars | Published: November 19, 2012

So anoth­er week has passed. It dawned on me this week­end that for me, there are four more work­ing weeks left in the year. That’s a bit of a shock, but then work will just con­tin­ue on hap­pen­ing in 2013, so it’s odd near­ing the end of the year still feels like a thing. Anyway. […]

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Week 169

By Kars | Published: November 12, 2012

Last week start­ed out with a vis­it to the Utrecht Med­ical Cen­tre to dis­cuss a pos­si­ble new project. I was intro­duced to this by my younger broth­er Ties, who is one third of the infa­mous Pony Design Club, a graph­ic design stu­dio and also of Dufarge, whose appar­el I reg­u­lar­ly sport. Any­way, the project is […]

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Week 168

By Kars | Published: November 5, 2012

While Alper is still away in the Antipodes, and I am sent the occa­sion­al hol­i­day snap (or #instabrag?) through Insta­gram, work con­tin­ues to hap­pen in the Utrecht stu­dio. When I say work, it appears I most­ly mean meet­ings, because look­ing back that’s what last week main­ly con­sist­ed of. Let’s see: I sat down with Irene and […]

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