Multi-Player City. The production of the negociated city: Educational Simulations

Abstract

‘Multi-Player City’ proposes an exploration about the concept of the negotiated city. Its production, developed in Central European countries and based on tools such as ‘collaborative planning’, is founded on the generation of a negotiation table where different agents involved in the production of the city merge. They aim to define a shared negotiated planning subject to scrutiny by different interests, needs and demands. The goal of this communication is the formulation of a methodological proposal based on gaming as a pedagogical tool for teaching the values of collaborative planning in order to train architects on alternative democratic urban models. The exposed teaching experience reproduces collaborative planning methods from the professional field into an academic simulation transferring the student the disappearance of the authorship concept, which moves from the subject to the collectivity, as a reflection of the changing role of the architect in the production of the contemporary city.