TReC The Responsive City network

About TReC The Responsive City network

‘The Responsive City’, TReC [2008] is a network of designers, artists and scientists with loose ties who live in Amsterdam, Istanbul, Cairo and London. Our work falls into the cross-section of architecture, urban design, planning, game design and governance. We develop city games to generate design and planning scenarios. Common interest of the network is perceiving cities as self-organizing systems. Cities are always subject to processes where simple realities end up in complex urban situations regardless of specific political and socio-economic conditions. Shrinking cities of Eastern Germany, growing informal settlements as in Accra or Buenos Aires, mushrooming gated communities at the peripheries of Istanbul are all subjects of systems theory. As TReC, we have been developing a special eye for analyzing such open and complex urban systems. We not only analyze but also propose strategies and tactics to deal with such urban processes. Currently we are forming the PLAY the CITY foundation to make space for researching and applying city design games in the real-time making of cities. Precise application of new media and social networks are an inevitable part of this process.

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• Headquarters

  NOORDAmsterdamNoord-Holland, Netherlands