Public/Private is a game that explores the topic of privacy in cities around the world.
Public/Private has 3 steps and takes about 60 seconds to complete.
This information will be collected and used for data visualization purposes only.
Tell us how often you seek privacy in the following places.
Click and drag each place to create your visualization.
Never
Rarely
No opinion
Sometimes
A lot
Share how satisfied you feel with the level of privacy in your city.
Public/Private is a game that explores the topic of privacy in our cities by focusing on where we find it.
By choosing where and how often you seek privacy in your city, you create a unique visual graph that can be compared with results from others in your city and from cities around the world.
Public/Private is a game that explores the topic of privacy in our cities by focusing on where we find it.
By choosing where in your city you seek privacy most often, you produce a visual graph representing those choices. Your graph is then combined with graphs generated by the rest of the global audience, creating a live data-visualization that illustrates how our experience of privacy changes at a local and global level. As more participants play Public/Private, more of the complexities of privacy in urban settings are illuminated.
This game was created to accompany two ongoing research projects undertaken by the BMW Guggenheim Lab in Mumbai in cooperation with Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action & Research (PUKAR) and the Design Cell at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies (KRVIA). The goal of these studies is to delve into the meaning and characteristics of privacy for city dwellers—and how that meaning might be addressed through design.
The game experience for Public/Private was designed and developed by Collective Assembly and Tom van de Velde.