Anna Szilágyi-Nagy

University of Tuebingen | EKU Tübingen · Department of Geosciences

Play and games, playfulness and gamefulness pervaded every aspect of our lives, transforming the way we want to participate and get engaged. The trend has also affected participatory planning and design, leading to a thriving practice of game design that aims to bring people—citizens and non-citizens, stakeholders and decision-makers—together to wo...

The workshop aims to bring together EDRA community and encourage international and multidisciplinary participants to discuss various meanings of the game, design, landscape, participation, and democracy, as well as how these concepts may be interrelated.

As built environment educators we develop educational tools to support youth’s learning and engagement especially in the context of the urban environment. One focus of our work is to design games that link playful pedagogical approaches with urban contents. Whereas previous literature gives various practical examples for applying games in the conte...

This paper investigates the recent evolution in the use of technologies in promoting democratic and transformative landscape change processes. In the fields of planning and design, as a result of the new discussion on sustainability set forth by the United Nations 2030 Goals for sustainable development and the European Landscape Convention, there i...

Public participation is an increasingly important means of managing landscape democracy processes; however, it continues to fall short of achieving a significant democratization of urban governance. Researchers advocate civic education and active citizenship in order to sustain democracy and suggest that meaningful participation happens when learni...