Finding Places initiative | Public Institutions

This compendium, prepared by the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), aims to capture emerging trends in digital responses of UN Member States against the COVID-19 pandemic along with other digital government initiatives and provide a preliminary analysis of their main features. These cases are shared for exchange of information so that Member States can learn from each other and possibly create new partnerships.

The city of Hamburg created Finding Places, a collaborative project run by the CityScienceLab at Hafencity University and the city of Hamburg in partnership with M.I.T and their open-source program CityScope. It is a serious that game utilises Tangible-Interactive-Modelling (TIM) technology to find suitable spaces in Hamburg for constructing accommodation for a further 20,000 refugees. By using an array of optically tagged Lego objects, computer vision, and 3D projection mapping, GIS data is used to create ‘LEGO-tized’ 3D representations of parts of Hamburg-Rothenburgsort – currently a prospective urban development.

Country

Germany

Institution

City of Hamburg