SuperBARRIO

Developed as an open source video game for smartphone and tablets, it is a tool for architects and public entities to engage the citizens in the design of the public space, to educate to sustainability and inclusiveness, and to collect data about the citizens’ needs, desires and proposals SuperBARRIO is a flexible tool that can be applied to different neighborhood. Citizens who are not specialists, architects or designers, do not have a tool today to design and visualize a proposal for the urban space. SuperBARRIO allow them to visualise the neighborhood in 3 dimensions and to modify it, adding elements, functions and services for the public space, in relation to the topics of ecology, energy, mobility, leisure and culture. Each player can make a design proposal and visualize its impact, receiving a score about the categories of accessibility, economy, productivity, ecology, social interaction. The player can therefore understand the level of complexity of each decision related to the urban space and the different needs related to different functions. The application collects the data of each session in a server, building a database about the citizens’ desires, needs and proposal and allowing the data visualization and analytics in a dashboard, accessible to citizens, architects and public entities.