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This writing is focusing on the concept of play in the city. In pursuit of ideal city, the concept of play has been neglected, pushed to labelled corners, assigned to certain age bracket. Playable city movement has brought the play in to the dialogue on city, the contemporary smart city, underlining the factors such as humor, spontaneity and pleasure. This paper introduces taking the playable city a step further towards a playful city, where play is a continuous process of city living, seamlessly integrated into the smart structure of the city, where citizens can reinvent the infrastructure for humorous purposes.
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Edirisinghe, C., Nijholt, A., Cheok, A.D. (2017). From Playable to Playful: The Humorous City. In: Poppe, R., Meyer, JJ., Veltkamp, R., Dastani, M. (eds) Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. INTETAIN 2016 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 178. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49616-0_25
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