December 13, 2021 In CFP, News, ReClaim By Mattia Thibault

Call for Papers – Speculative Semiotics

Guest Editor: Mattia Thibault, Gamification Group, Tampere University.   FULL CFP: https://bit.ly/SpeculativeSemioticsCFP   This special issue of Linguistic Frontiers aims to explore the possible and impossible futures for communication technologies or, in other words, a Speculative Semiotics. Projects of nuclear semiotics (Sebeok 1985), focusing on how to communicate across...

June 10, 2020 In ReClaim By Mattia Thibault

New Book: Ludosemiotica

We all know what  "play" is, or at least we think we do. But, in fact, how does this indispensable cultural device really work? What does it mean "to play"? And what interpretative and communicative operations does it involve? Today, while our culture appears to be...

February 1, 2020 In ReClaim By Mattia Thibault

Jurassic Tampere

In December 2019 the peaceful city of Tampere, Finland, was invaded by hundreds of dinosaurs. Small, brightly coloured rubber toy dinosaurs, to be exact. This was part of Jurassic Tampere an urban toyification activity organised as part of the ReClaim project. Why bringing toys in the...

December 2, 2019 In ReClaim By Mattia Thibault

ROOK! Playful data visualization for air quality

Rook is playful data visualization device aiming at the dissemination of air quality data, developed by Gamification Group member Mattia Thibault and Artur Cordeiro, in partnership with Waag, and with the collaboration of Yuri Alexsander, Mar Escarrabill, Luis Rodil Fernandez and Jéssyca Rios (full credits...

August 21, 2019 In ReClaim, Urban Play By Mattia Thibault

Critical Playable Cities

Cities are spaces permeated by constant tension and conflict, as inhabitants define and redefine them, while going about their daily living. Citizens, institutions, governments and businesses all compete for the possibility of writing the city, of modifying its forms and uses, of engraving themselves in...

February 26, 2019 In CFP, Event By Mattia Thibault

CFP: Gamification @ 53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2020)

Part of the “Decision Analytics, Mobile Services, and Service Science” – track 53rd annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences HICSS 7-10 January 2020 | Grand Wailea, Maui Important dates:  June 15: Submissions deadline August 17: Notification sent to authors September 4: Revision deadline September 10: Final acceptance notifications sent to authors September 22: Deadline for authors to...