On a recent sunny Sunday afternoon I took a walk while boulesing through Utrecht. Together with a group of friends I used a number of streets and squares as a playing field. The water-level walkways along the Old Canal, the fountain behind the city hall, and the usually quiet Seven Alleys. Passersby responded with amusement [...]
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Drifting through the city with a few bocce balls
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Join us for a game of Bocce Drift
So we have five sets of bocce balls lying around (or jeu de boules, as we like to call the game in the Netherlands). They’re left over from our little stint at NU Grounds. We were planning to run Bocce Drift there, but did not get around to it. So let’s play it anyway, in [...]
Machines for getting lost
It turns out Lonely Planet is not just in the business of helping you find your way, but also helping you get lost. I came across their experimental travel series when I was doing some concept development recently for a heritage site. A project I am working on at the HKU’s DPI research group, which [...]