Game-Based Learning and Interactive Experiences

Leading gamification for solving urban challenges

Design and implementation of educational and interactive games at Mammute Consulting and Accelerator Center is an innovative approach to how managers and citizens engage with urban issues and urban identity. Beyond increasing participants’ knowledge and awareness, these games aim to enhance interaction and active participation in urban management.

Design and implementation of educational and interactive games

Approach

Gamification of urban identity and urban issue analysis at Mammute is one of the center’s services for developing innovative social and managerial urban models. These games aim to increase the theoretical and practical knowledge of urban managers, enhance citizen engagement in shaping urban identity, enable collaborative problem-solving, and deepen understanding of the city through multidisciplinary perspectives in a game-based format.

Game Types

Urban learning-based interactive game “GLUT”

Urban adventure games for citizens

Urban management games for city managers

Game design and co-creation of commercial and urban games

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Portfolio

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Urban Pulse interactive urban game

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City Branding for the Historic Port of Kong

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Game Theory and Structure

This game is a board-game system consisting of a game board, a certain amount of money distributed among groups based on their role and position, and a set of defined rules. The game board represents a fictional city in which seven groups, representing urban stakeholders and residents, participate. These groups include:
– Three groups representing citizens in low-, middle-, and high-income social classes.
– Landowners who own vacant urban and suburban land.
– NGOs representing social activists.
– Merchants representing urban capital holders.
– Municipality representing the government.

This fictional city includes a commercial center, deteriorated urban fabric, social landmarks, informal settlements, transportation networks, green spaces, parks, facilities, and services, with populations distributed at different densities. Each group begins the game with a set of land parcels randomly placed on the city map. Through trading land and money with other groups, each team pursues its hidden objectives revealed before the game starts (simulating a land market system). Therefore, in addition to general city rules, each group follows a hidden agenda that guides its decision-making.

Functions of the Interactive City Game

This game is highly flexible and can be used as an educational tool in schools and universities, a promotional tool in cultural centers and urban neighborhoods, or a decision-making tool in managerial and executive organizations such as municipalities. Beyond education, it can simulate and evaluate policy decisions in real-world conditions, as demonstrated in its implementation for city managers in Tehran Municipality. Another key function of this innovative game is training participants to understand the interests of different urban groups, think operationally about conflicts of interest, and design solutions through collective action and participation.
– Interaction
– Dialogue and collective action
– An opportunity to rethink values and urban decision-making processes in the form of a win-based game

In a world full of conflicting interests, making the right decision is not easy. This game provides an opportunity to understand the real consequences and impacts of our actions when facing conflicts of interest with other groups in a realistic simulation. If you want to test your managerial and planning skills in a real challenge or improve your ability to design solutions, participating in this game is an ideal opportunity.