The current economic urban model generates static and rigid spaces. This denies citizens’ participation in public space and creates “non-places” like shopping areas, decorative streets, and sculptural squares with useless furniture. In order to promote the cities into the global market, our public space is becoming a purchase object uninhabitable within a showcase. Our project tries to recover the one-to-one relationships and the participation and playing site.
public space is understood as the exchange,
Static and scuptural space ≠ participatory and playfull space.
Traditional games are free activities where to play, to learn and to enjoy is the same thing. This games are also social activities witch understand the community as an important part of each individual life. Each game has rules to achieve a goal but it´s only an excuse for playing. The main aim is to stimulate the imagination by using a repetitive magical story creating a platform for individual and social learning.
Culture
We understand as something inherent in human being witch pass on from generation to generation by repetitive habits called customs. This creates a fragile temporary network where language, art, game, folklore and
tradition are mingled, generating a magical atmosphere. It
becomes non-places in places.
Game is older than culture, since animals did not wait for men to be taught how to play. Game sets itself specifically in each culture using public space, streets, and squares. This also generates horizontal collective relationships and
Homo=Ludens.
allows the spontaneity of causal exchanges between players; The cultural body, As a result, we understand game as essential part of our culture and a good training for not keep being just passive spectators and consumers of our cities. The game generates horizontal collective relations and allows the spontaneity of the exchanges, causal relationships between players, non-linear changes..
The game draws us, makes us engage in what we are doing stop being passive spectators and consumers.
Each game has its cultural particularities closely related with a specific site. We have studied this relation and specifically, Portuguese traditional games. We mainly take into account how the game interacts with the public space, how the action is performed in public and the items needed for playing. We identify four games categories:
Ground games: the action takes place mainly over the ground. String games: the rope is the main element for game developing. Items games: the game needs specific items. Air games: suspended by auxiliary elements seems to hover in the air.
TRADITIONAL GAMES/Urban study
We have forgotten how to run and how to enjoy our public space from square to square. Abandoned spaces, saturated pseudo-public spaces and regular tours, are our nowadays cities. We gaze the situation like passive spectators.
We run and jump because we are playing. Why do we play where nobody can see us? ; What are we hiding? ; What are we protecting us from? While we play we transform the existing space.
Playing on Squares, Courtyards, Gardens and Parks
Playing in streets!
Playing in streets. How are our spaces? How are our playgrounds? We play on the floor, hanging items, with balls or over a hard or soft texture.
Sometimes we just play! Alone or in group! with a rope, a ball or our mate´s hands,...
vase
gamepath around GuimarĂŁes air
tables/chairs trees
rope
facades sand
ground stone pavements
grass
topography gartens
items
We propose a blackout! Turning on afterwards, a magical GAMEARﾃウS,
We propose night communities Urban-games, rediscovering tradition and taking care of our surrounding. Urban games are distributed in the city of Guimarﾃ｣es, turning around public space into a participatory and active site, filled of life, light and dreams., This generates a collective network ... all through the night in a moon spell.
Long time ago, stars enjoyed themselves playing during nighttime. They used to
watch children playing in the streets, imitating them, running and jumping around space. Turning into shooting stars they followed their own flow. Stars learned how to jump the rope, play hide and seek and many others games ending up happy and exhausted at dawn.
One night, stars, tired and bored of seeing how people played less and less in the streets and spent more and more time at home, decided going down to earth to explain children how, who now are grown-ups, used to play in good old times. They turned into lighting objects recovering old names told, long time ago by those who are now parents and grandparents. They came inside the houses enlightening inside space and waking up all the children, who excited, ran out to the streets and started to play with them instinctively. Stars lighted up everything in a shooting star shower and meandering along streets in a flood of light. Adults, seeing their children playing, remembered when they were kids and soon joined them. Thus the city recover its soul thanks to the stars, which since then, decided to come down every year to ensure people never forget to play again.
Each game has a web space where participants can chat with others participants, interact with the game, share impressions, and upload photos and videos on real-time.
Largo da Oliveira SQUARE We Choose this site because it has all the Characteristics we need, and also it has the Night Mueum.e.
Da bilha/ HaNG UP BuGS
Hung up game keeps the wealth of empires, the secrets of the gods, the things above, and only one sinner can break it and bring this treasure to the Earth‌ It is a collective thought; a public party on the street, a popular feeling. It may be publicly displayed in a festive fun, breaking taboos and putting our feet back on the ground.
Da bilha/ HaNG UP BuGS PLAYING SPACE: Is the atmosphere of our streets and squares . MATERIALS: Rope /Support/Bags/Hitting sticks/Stuffing ACTION PLAN: During one week the paper bag will stay switch on, hanging up and getting bigger by the energy, the habits and the life of the city. One special day, the catharsis day, everything will come back to the Earth. Lighting bracelets and other items will be collected by people. Next the light will spread through the street of the public space.
corda / jump rope The first jump ropes are said to be made of bamboo and vines found in jungles. Jumping along with these items led to what is today referred to as jump roping. Some say it originated in China, while Western versions are said to have originated around 1600 B.C. in Egypt. The first real evidence of jump rope as an activity is seen in medieval paintings. Children rolled hoops and jumped were some of the first to jump rope in America which brought about the variation of jump rope called “Double Dutch.� In the 1940s and 1950’s jump rope became the game of choice for inner city children because any one could play and it only required a rope. The 1970s brought an increased interest to jump rope as a way to achieve physical fitness and health. Since then, jump rope events and programs have emerged and jumping rope has become part of many different exercise training regimens.
corda / jump rope RULES : Usually one or more participants jump over a rope which is rotated so that it passes under their feet and over their head. In the single game, the same person is who spins and jumps the rope. In the group game, there are at least three people that are involved in the game, two that turn the rope while the third jumps. Is easy to jump while the beat of popular songs. We propose a musical performance (reinterpreted Portuguese folk songs) to skip the ropes. DUSK ADAPTATION: During the day the ropes won´t shine and will wake up while the sun is setting. MATERIALS: Rhythmical music: musician ropes. ACTION PLAN: Ropes will be integrated in the city as an installation. The game starts with the music and the installation would be unwrapped. The action will connect with the game.
macaca / Hopscotch There are apocryphal stories of hopscotch being invented by Romans or Chinese, but the first recorded reference to hopscotch dates back to 1677. “The time when schoolboys should play at Scotch-hoppers.” “Lawyers and Physicians have little to do this month, so they may (if they will) play at Scotch-hoppers.”
Since the game was known and popular in the seventeenth century, it is logical to assume that it existed at least a few decades or perhaps even many centuries before 1677…
macaca / Hopscotch RULES : The first player tosses the marker (typically a stone, coin or bean bag) into the first square. The marker must land completely within the designated square and without touching a line or bouncing out. The player then hops through the course, skipping the square with the marker in it. Single squares must be hopped on one foot. For the first single square, either foot may be used. Side by side squares are straddled, with the left foot landing in the left square, and the right foot landing in the right square. Optional squares marked “Safe”, “Home”, or “Rest” are neutral squares, and may be hopped through in any manner without penalty. After hopping into the “Safe”, “Home”, or “Rest” the player must then turn around and return through the course (square 9, then squares 7 & 8, next square 6 and so forth) on one or two legs depending on the square until he or she reaches the square with their marker. DUSK ADAPTATION: During the day she doesn´t exist but while the night is coming the playing lines appear, showing the geometry of the new pavement or the prints of past events in this specific place. MATERIALS: Phosphorescent tape, rolling phosphorescent plastic sheets. ACTION PLAN: The lightning items will be switch on and the game will start at that precise moment in different locations.
Scene 3
680m²
Fluorescent adhesive tape , orange and yellow18mx5cm 55€ HEAVEN
HEAVEN 7
7
8
8 Adhesive tape , withe and yellow 33mx5cm 26.70 €
6
6 4.20
4
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+
4
5
+
3
5
2
3 1
1
5m²
0.60
2
perimeter 11,5m
inside line 5,5m
arts 1,5m
referent points 1,5m
Photoluminiscent adhesive tape 15mx2,5cm 42 €
Continuous Macaca: 20m
0.60 1.20
Stones 0€
5
3
4
+
1
0.60 1.80
9,75m ²
1
1
5
Stuff production
referent points 0,15m
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referent points 0,20m
0.60
arts 0,15m
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arts 0,30m
perimeter 2,50m
2
0.60
5.40
perimeter 3.20m
HEAVEN
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Fluorescent Spray ; green, red, blue, yellow and orange 3,95€
Hopscotch budget 1Hopscotch
Discontinuous Macaca: 17,4m
65,00€
Fluorescent adhesive tape Adhesive tape Photoluminiscent adhesive tape Fluorescent spray Stuff production
€ m² 144m
440,00€
33m
31,50€
1m
12,50€
1u 2p
3,95€ 100,00€
584,00€
bocha/ petanque-hoop Petanque is a form of boles where the goal is, while standing inside a starting circle with both feet on the ground, to throw hollow metal balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball called a cochonnet (literally “piglet”) or jack. It is also sometimes called a bouchon (literally “cork”) or le petit (“the small one”).
Rings is a game that consists in throwing a ring so as it falls around a stick. This stick is placed some meters away from the thrower.
bocha/ petanque-hoop
DUSK ADAPTATION: We mix rings and petanque. A square or part of it is filled with vertical luminiscent rods. The sticks are used as bait for rings, and as obstacles for petanque. MATERIALS: Balls ACTION PLAN: Improvisation is allowed.
Scene 3 =
680m²
Petanque game for children, not fluorescent, 8 balls 6,95 €
Min Petanque-hoop: 42m ²
PVC pipe Ø100mm 2.45€/m
12.00
range
3.00
3.75
Fluorescent paper, several colours, 25und 60x65cm 5,35€
Hoop
Phosphorescent hoop Ø32cm , 2,94€/un
Max Petanque-hoop: 68m ²
range
4.00
Fluorescent Spray ; green, red, blue, yellow and orange 3,95€
Stuff production
3.75
Petanque-hoop budget
15.00
Petanque game Fluerescent paper
1Petanque-Hoop
Petanque
74,10€
Phosphorescente hoop Fluorescent spray PVC pipe Stuff production
€ 680m² 44balls
34,75€
1u
5,35€
50u
147,00€
5u 26m 2p
19,75€ 63,70€ 100,00€
370,55€
Introduction WE ARE CHILDREN
Aims and Development Communication plan begins a month before the opening of the activities in Guimaraes 2012, creating an interactive website and a profile of Gamear達es. Open call from, the social and cultural networks, to people who wants to live a sensorial experience through cultural participation in both, street and net. During planned games, travelers and Guimar達es neighbors would be able to write and communicate with others through the dynamic interface. It would allow instant communication and instant gathering of participants with games and activities of the city. We want to provide a meeting point for networks and web itself, where you can upload photos, videos, sounds and other material. The portal is open to further growth once the live meeting by collecting new proposals. We will create a database that will record the cultural associations of Guimar達es in Portugal in order to offer the project and invite them to participate, gathering as many cultural institutions as possible.
Communication Strategy The 1st action (a month before the inauguration) Creating database and media partnerships Web and social network structure Initial contact with cultural media and the city. The 2nd action (a week before the event) File and press release to the media Maintenance of expectation and communication times and locations of the games on the internet. the 3rd action Creating a collective story told through the collection of experiences of local residents and travelers. tools 1. Public Web 2. Dossier and Press documents 3. Social Networks 4. Cultural database 5. Contact media and associations / organizations ICCS
SPECIFIC SITE GENERAL LIGHTING TRANSFORMING ELEMENTS PROFESSIONALS ADVERTAISING
ATMOSPHERE
UNIT/m2/H
COST ( EUROS)
LINK-SUPPLIER
ATMOSPHERE
LIGHTING INSTALATION 2.520,00 € 900,00 € 400,00 € 1.220,00 € 800,00 € 800,00 € 3.320,00 €
MATERIALS EXPENSES
Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3
3 days 2 days 2 days
PROFESSIONAL FEES
4days
Stuff production
TOTAL LIGHTING GAMES
UNIT/m2/H
www.escrichs.es
8.3.b.
Braided nylon rope, 30m
2u
1.220,54 € 60,54 € http://www.equipovertical.com/Cuerda-PARALLEL
http://www.mekitron.com/ http://www.tiendasonido.com/
7.1.b 7.1.c2.
One color flexible Led tube 50m
2u
1.060,00 €
Stuff animator Organization
144 m 33m 2m 3u 2p 1p 3p
ADVERTAISING Web program Public
TOTAL HOPSCOTCH
PROFESSIONAL FEES Stuff production
Stuff animator Organization
http://www.segureco.com/product.php?id_product=411 http://latiendadelpintor.org/product_info.php/products_id/1208
44balls 1u 50u 5u 26m 100u
Stuff animator Organization ADVERTAISING Web program Public
TOTAL PETANQUE
2p 3p 3p
370,55 € 34,75 € 5,35 € 147,00 € 19,75 € 63,70 € 100,00 € 650,00 € 100,00 € 150,00 € 400,00 € 350,00 € 250,00 € 100,00 € 1.370,55 €
http://luces-led.com/Product/Tubo-LED-Neon-flexible-Gamma-monocolor www.ferreteriamalaga.com/pack sacos rafia 60x100 p
100,00 € 706.html?osCsid=74da97f58a3ef2e8c27637160cc578c4 1.050,00 € 500,00 € 150,00 € 400,00 € 350,00 € 250,00 € 100,00 € 2.620,54 €
HANG UP BUGS/PINHATA
http://www.inteligentes.org/prestashop/product.php?id_product=35
454,00 €
MATERIALS EXPENSES
7.3.a.
Lantern paper, 80cmx40cm
7.2.a. 7.1.a.
Aluminun reflective paper Led+ battery
8.2.a.
Galvanized steel cable 20mm+ elements
7.2.e. 7.3.b. 8.3.c.
Fluorescent bracelets PVC pipe Handkerchief Stuff production
PROFESSIONAL FEES Stuff production
TOTAL JUMP ROPE
http://www.inteligentes.org/prestashop/product.php?id_product=92
20u 70cm 100u 25m 1000u 4u 10u
PROFESSIONAL FEES
MATERIALS EXPENSES
Petanque game Fluorescent paper Phosphorescente hoop Fluorescent spray PVC pipe Lights balls
5p 3p 3p
Public
PETANQUE/BOCHA
8.3.a. 7.2.b. 7.2.d1. 6.1.c. 7.3.b. 7.1.c2.
10ud
Web program
PROFESSIONAL FEES Stuff production
Polyproylene bags
ADVERTAISING
508,45 € 440,00 € 31,50 € 25,00 € 11,95 € 550,00 € 100,00 € 50,00 € 400,00 € 350,00 € 250,00 € 100,00 € 1.408,45 €
LINK-SUPPLIER
JUMP ROPE/ CORDA
COST ( EUROS)
MATERIALS EXPENSES
Fluorescent adhesive tape Ground tape Photoluminiscent adhesive tape Fluorescent spray
COST ( EUROS)
MATERIALS EXPENSES
HOPSCOTCH/MACACAS
7.2.c1. 8.1.a. 7.2.c2. 6.1.c.
UNIT/m2/H
http://www.decathlon.es/set-8-bolas-de-plastico-id_8066880.htm
Stuff animator Organization
http://www.artemiranda.es/fichaproducto.asp?idproducto=2134
ADVERTAISING
http://www.iviva.es/catalogo/47049.htm
Web program
http://latiendadelpintor.org/product_info.php/products_id/1208
Public
TOTAL HANG UP BUGS
5p 3p 3p
10,00 € http://latiendadelpintor.org/product_info.php/cPath/73_302/products_id/1207 100,00 € http://www.ferreteriamalaga.com/cable-acero-galvanizado-p-
140,00 € 3459.html?osCsid=f573f85ae88af2fb0d74fc0cd236d144 168,00 € 8,60 € 3,60 € 1.050,00 € 500,00 € 150,00 € 400,00 € 350,00 € 250,00 € 100,00 € 1.854,00 €
TRANSPORT
450,00 €
* INCIDENTALS
976,46 €
TOTAL ESTIMATED BUDGET
www.spanish.alibaba.com/product-gs/chinese-traditional-sky-lantern-for-
6,00 € christmas-and-new-year-447974863.html
12.000,00 €
http://www.tradeage.com/es/sale/
“We run and jump because we are playing”