Gamification in Architecture: The Future Interface in Design as an Incentive to Participatory Democracy

Daniele Battista, Liliana Cecere, Francesco Colace, Caterina Gabriella Guida, Angelo Lorussso, Domenico Santaniello

2025

Abstract

The research illustrates an innovative approach to urban planning by using a collaborative digital platform that encourages involvement and interaction between citizens, technicians and administrators. Leveraging the proposed digital platform, the citizen becomes a promoter of urban renewal, triggering processes of inclusion, participation and civic engagement. The study focuses on the use of BIM (Building Information Modeling) as a base model that becomes the setting for a desktop gaming platform: it determines a virtual three-dimensional (3D) interactive environment, based on a desktop application, for the training of citizens and their collaboration for the creation of new design ideas, as well as for proposals for the refunctionalization of existing buildings. In this way, the ultimate user becomes itself designer, creator of an intervention, thinking about spaces and hypothesizing different functions. It is thus strengthened the role of active participation of citizens and governance of the territory of the P.A., which becomes a subject able to manage contributions of different nature, with a view to co-design and co-production of services. Furthermore, the successful integration of HBIM (Heritage Building Information Modeling) and the application opens the way to new applications of involvement, learning and interactive training, which require a detailed and reality-based built environment as a context in which to act.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Battista D., Cecere L., Colace F., Guida C., Lorussso A. and Santaniello D. (2025). Gamification in Architecture: The Future Interface in Design as an Incentive to Participatory Democracy. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: ERSeGEL; ISBN 978-989-758-746-7, SciTePress, pages 801-811. DOI: 10.5220/0013474900003932

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ersegel25,
author={Daniele Battista and Liliana Cecere and Francesco Colace and Caterina Guida and Angelo Lorussso and Domenico Santaniello},
title={Gamification in Architecture: The Future Interface in Design as an Incentive to Participatory Democracy},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: ERSeGEL},
year={2025},
pages={801-811},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013474900003932},
isbn={978-989-758-746-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: ERSeGEL
TI - Gamification in Architecture: The Future Interface in Design as an Incentive to Participatory Democracy
SN - 978-989-758-746-7
AU - Battista D.
AU - Cecere L.
AU - Colace F.
AU - Guida C.
AU - Lorussso A.
AU - Santaniello D.
PY - 2025
SP - 801
EP - 811
DO - 10.5220/0013474900003932
PB - SciTePress