IAAC’s Master in City & Technology (1 or 2-year program) is a unique program oriented towards redefining the analysis, planning, and design of twenty-first-century cities and beyond. The program offers expertise in the design of digitally enhanced, ecological and human-centered urban environments by intersecting the disciplines of urbanism and data science. Taking place in Barcelona, the capital of urbanism, the Master in City & Technology is training the professionals that city administrations, governments, industries, and communities need, to transform the urban environment in the era of big data.
Public Engagement and Play
Serious Games explores how game design can be used to engage citizens and stakeholders with complex social and environmental challenges in architecture and urbanism. The seminar, conducted in a workshop format, introduces students to the principles of serious games, emphasizing play, empathy, and participation as tools for public engagement and knowledge exchange. Through hands-on exercises, fieldwork, and collaborative micro-game projects, students learn to translate urban research and data into interactive experiences that both communicate and generate insights about the built environment.
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A Community Board Game for Mukuru, Nairobi Jumuiya means “community” in Swahili. My Jumuiya is a participatory board game in which 3 to 6 players each embody a different resident of Mukuru, Nairobi — a mother, a factory worker, a doctor, a kid, a teacher, a university student, a market seller, or a person with … Read more
En La Calle is a board game for 2–4 players aged 8 and above, set in the streets of Bosa-Apogeo, Bogotá — a neighbourhood home to some of the highest school density in the city and the largest school in Bogotá by enrolled students, yet streets that were never designed with children in mind. En … Read more
A Bee Survival Game Context – Bee-Careful starts in Lisbon, Portugal. Where social (vulnerable young community), environmental (ecological unbalance and fragmentation), and mobility (elderly retired community) problematics are adressed through one common medium; greenery. Greenery forms the binder in which the previous elderly community of Lisbon convverges with a new and young community across a … Read more
Urban Mirror is an urban game that turns an ordinary walk in Trinitat Nova and Trinitat Vella into a moment of pause, reflection, and shared authorship of public space. The project is anchored in the urban and social fabric of Nou Barris, where large infrastructures such as the Ronda de Dalt physically separate neighborhoods that … Read more
