Design thinking approaches involving 300+ tech companies conceptualizing ideas, bottom-up stakeholder hackathons, and immersion lab prototyping (as exemplified by Playtown in Recife, Brazil) can surface distinctive place character and interactive public experiences that commercial design alone cannot generate.
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Dr. Nisha Abu BakrEvidence Quote
“they brought in 300 over tech companies to conceptualize how they want to bring this city into a play city and they did a hackathon of bottom up to get the the stakeholders at the ground level to to conceptualize different ideas and they had an immersion lab where they did a prototype of the ideas”
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Reimagined Cities: Can Cities Leverage Urban Design & Tech to Attract the Next Generation Traveler?— Intelligence SquaredCreated: 8/13/2026, 7:46:07 AM
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