BLOCKTOWN is a community art project powered through your comments and engagement. It’s an experimental game of city-making, a digital Madurodam. With each post, a new layer of buildings will be added to the Town. Your photographs, quotes, stories and feedback are the raw materials that drive construction for each new layer.
Interested in participating in BLOCKTOWN? I need your help to assemble new buildings! If you'd like to participate beyond image comments, download the Rhino template file I've prepared on Github and assemble a custom building of your own. Once you re-upload it, I'll add it to the Town.
> Github 3D File Download. Click here! <
Here's a walkthrough of blocks available for download (here) on Github...
Each building and landscape element of BLOCKTOWN will be derived directly from your comments and contributions. Photographs, quotes and stories will inspire their own design logic and manifest themselves as 3D characters within the Town. Buildings will be added to the Town with every new post. BLOCKTOWN will be treated as a living, breathing art-project within a digital canvas, always subject to change.
Download the kit of blocks to play and improvise a building of your own. Here's a look at the Rhino file that contains a building footprint to build within and a set of pre-made blocks for you to assemble. For the advanced modelers among us, you can customize your own "block" if you like! Follow the directions included in the model space and re-upload the file to the "blocktown" Github repository.
> Github 3D File Download. Click here! <
Through this project - I hope to engage in a broader dialogue with fellow Steemians about their own sense of place and placemaking. These types of game-structured conversations are a fascinating way of learning more about what a person defines as his or her “community.” It’s a way of connecting to one another through the geographies we are deeply tied to and knowledgeable of. In a world of links, likes, upvotes and IP addresses, it’s exciting to find ways of bridging the digital divide and connecting with those on the other side of the screen.
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