Ludic and Social Media Interaction Design Principles in Smart City Development

This paper focuses on how ludic and social media interaction design principles (Murray, 2012), may be useful for mapping, planning, designing and realizing people-friendly urban spaces in Smart(er) Cities. This latter concept has been in focus for some time, as evidenced in 2011 by inserts and articles in the International Herald Tribune highlighting a cluster of cities: Auckland, Berlin, Barcelona, Cape Town, Copenhagen, Curitiba, Montreal, Santiago, Shanghai and Vilnius all envisioning future development policies in Smart City terms. That same year, the prominent Italian economic broadsheet Il Sole 24, dedicated a special number of its weekend innovation supplement Nòva, to ideas and agendas for Smarter Cities.