Today urban games are an emerging phenomena, a new language through which the playful activity discovers new meanings and socio-cultural functions. They are based on the interaction between the participants and the urban spaces: recently they are also emerging as new environments of communication and marketing. Their aim is to combine ludic practices and unexpected situations involving players and which may lead to virtuous behaviors in communities. Indeed, urban games emerge as useful tools to promote socialization and engagement through the exploration and re-appropriation of urban spaces following logic of best practices. On this bases, the author describes two advertising campaigns of brands that have used the activity of urban game in the form of “treasure hunt” as strategies of renewed relationship with its brandspcape.

Gli urban games rappresentano nel contesto contemporaneo un fenomeno emergente in quanto linguaggio nel quale l’attività ludica riscopre nuovi significati e funzioni socio-culturali. Basati sull’interazione tra i partecipanti e gli spazi pubblici cittadini, essi si stanno affermando come nuovi ambienti di comunicazione e di marketing. Il loro scopo è infatti quello di coniugare pratiche ludiche e situazioni impreviste volte a coinvolgere i giocatori in azioni di buone pratiche sul territorio urbano. Su queste premesse l'autore descrive le campagne pubblicitarie di due noti brand che hanno utilizzato l’attività di gioco urbano nella forma di “caccia al tesoro” come strategie di rinnovata relazione con il proprio brandspcape.

Gli Urban games: pratica creativa della brand communication

RUSSO, GIOVANNA
2014

Abstract

Today urban games are an emerging phenomena, a new language through which the playful activity discovers new meanings and socio-cultural functions. They are based on the interaction between the participants and the urban spaces: recently they are also emerging as new environments of communication and marketing. Their aim is to combine ludic practices and unexpected situations involving players and which may lead to virtuous behaviors in communities. Indeed, urban games emerge as useful tools to promote socialization and engagement through the exploration and re-appropriation of urban spaces following logic of best practices. On this bases, the author describes two advertising campaigns of brands that have used the activity of urban game in the form of “treasure hunt” as strategies of renewed relationship with its brandspcape.
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