Geogames as Cities of Perception: Understanding Hybrid Spaces, in: Poplin, A.; de Sena, I.; Andrade, B. (2025): Proceedings of the 2nd Geogames Symposium – Connecting Communities through Games and Play, 9-10 June 2025 Dublin, Ireland, pp. 86-93.

Delighted that my project “Untitled #5 (2023) . DAB version” is the winner in the category “Graphic Design / Colorful Project” at DNA Paris Design Awards 2025. (No Artificial Intelligence | No AI)

Understanding Hybrid Spaces: Designing a Spacetime Model to Represent Dynamic Topologies of Hybrid Spaces . Now online at Cornell Universities arXiv repository.

This paper develops a spatiotemporal model for the visualization of dynamic topologies of hybrid spaces. The visualization of spatiotemporal data is a well-known problem, for example in digital twins in urban planning. There is also a lack of a basic ontology for understanding hybrid spaces. The developed spatiotemporal model has three levels: a level of places and media types, a level of perception and a level of time and interaction. Existing concepts and types of representation of hybrid spaces are presented. The space-time model is tested on the basis of an art exhibition. Two hypotheses guide the accompanying online survey: (A) there are correlations between media use (modality), the participants’ interactions (creativity) and their perception (understanding of art) and (B) individual parameters (demographic data, location and situation, individual knowledge) influence perception (understanding of art). The range, the number of interactions and the response rate were also evaluated.

The online survey generally showed a positive correlation between media use (modality) and individual activity (creativity). However, due to the low participation rate (PTN=14), the survey is unfortunately not very representative. Various dynamic topologies of hybrid spaces were successfully visualized. The joint representation of real and virtual places and media types conveys a new basic understanding of place, range and urban density. Relationships between modality, Mobility and communicative interaction become visible. The current phenomenon of multilocality has been successfully mapped. The space-time model enables more precise class and structure formation, for example in the development of digital twins. Dynamic topologies of hybrid spaces, such as in social media, at events or in urban development, can thus be better represented and compared.

Keywords: hybrid space, architecture and urban planning, digital twins, digital transformation, spatial perception, data visualization, social media, media theory.

A german version of the paper is available at Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR)

Our demo paper “Unraveling the Tales of Aurora – An Imaginative Serious Games Approach” has been accepted for presentation at IMET 2023 Conference.

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My latest research paper on basic principles for virtual world design, titled “Ambiguity in utopian XR-games,” was just published with @SpringerNature in the European Journal of Futures Research. Read here: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40309-023-00218-w

Wirklichkeiten | Realities . Ausstellungskatalog | Art exhibition catalogue is now online at Social Sciences Open Access Repository (SSOAR) by gesis – Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften.

Wie steht es um Ihr Kunstverständnis und Ihre Kreativität?

Diese Frage stellt unser aktuelles Citizen Science Projekt “Wirklichkeiten | Realities” im Rahmen der gleichnamigen Kunstausstellung im Rathaus in Herrsching am Ammersee.

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Wirklichkeiten | Realities . Kunstausstellung | Art Exhibition
Mai 2023 – 30. Juni 2023 | May 1st – June 30th, 2023

Sitzungssaal im Rathaus . Bahnhofstraße 12,
D-82211 Herrsching am Ammersee

Social Media Wall: #kunstwirklichkeiten

Die Ausstellung ist Mo – Fr geöffnet
The exhibition is open Mon – Fri

Today we are presenting our posters at Federal Forum for Remote Sensing and Copernicus 2022. The photographs were kindly provided by Gunter Zeug from Terranea, Germany.

The following posters have been published at mediaTUM – the media and publications repository of the Technical University of Munich:

Grimma Floodfighters – Open Geodata in a Real-time Strategy Game (english version)

Grimma Floodfighters – Offene Geodaten in einem Echtzeitstrategiespiel (german version)

Nykus Exploration – Open Geodata in a Survival Game (english version)

Nykus Exploration – Offene Geodaten in einem Survival Game (german version)

Open Geodata and Virtual Reality Games . 2 Poster Presentations at Federal Forum for Remote Sensing and Copernicus 2022, June 21st – 23rd, Berlin