1. JONATHAN BALDWIN | TAMI EVNIN | ALEX GEKKER | HIRUMI NANAYAKKARA

2. CONCEPT
Weave PICNIC’s theme of Urban Futures
and pop-up / ad-hoc city microcosms into
a physical social networking application via
7scenes & Twitter.

3. PRECEDENTS
Invisible Cities
Settlers of Catan
Sims
Ad Hoc networks / flash mobs
Ralph Koster’s Social Mechanics

4. RULES & GAMEPLAY
Architects are preassigned to 1 of 4 teams upon login.
Architects must attend PICNIC events to collect missing resources and build their city.
Resources come in the form of physical artifacts (playing cards) that are collected from each event.
In between events, architects gather at Trading Posts as designated in 7scenes.
At trading posts, architects can trade cards either between their team or with other teams to form desired
combinations.
Cominations unlock needed city structures.
Combinations needed for each team’s city will be available on an external website visible at trading posts
or any mobile device.
Architects will trade correct combinations for a secret code at the trading post.
Once a winning hand is created, architect/s must tweet to #BSIT, #TeamColor, #SecretCode to reveal
needed city structure.
Using these Tweets, an external javascript site will show the progression of each team’s city.
The winning team will have the the most stable city based on event attendance and successful ad hoc
interactions with other PICNIC architects.

5. Architects log back 7 scenes Architects use
into 7scenes to find 7scenes to find
the next series of building block
events hotspots
Watch invisible Attend PICNIC
AD HOC
city materialize events
CIRCLE OF
TRUST
Tweet winning Collect resource
combinations Architects create playing cards
desired combinations
with other teams
Trading Posts

6. GOALS
Fully integrate theme of PICNIC into concept
Stimulate ad hoc interaction (ad hoc picnics) between conference
attendees
Interactions will utilize social media to not only perpetuate gameplay,
but also leave behind connections between players for possible future
collaborations.

7. USER SCENARIO
Lorenz is a blogger. He’s at PICNIC to
keep up on the latest and greatest
in new media & technology, and
network with others in the industry.
He has some extra time in between
events and wants to test out the
BestSceneInTown.

8. USER SCENARIO
He logs into 7scenes and sees
a map of the PICNIC grounds
showing all of the events for the
afternoon.

9. USER SCENARIO
He attends the events that interest him, and picks up the physical
playing cards that are located at each event.

10. USER SCENARIO
He views the external site that contains the desired card combinations
to retrieve city structures.
Green space – 2 Infrastructure, 2 Sustainability, 1 Society
Municipality – 1 of each (Infrastructure, Sustainability, Society, De-
sign, Media)
Transit net – 1 Infrastructure, 2 Design, 1 Society, 1 Sustainability
Artisans Quarter – 2 Media, 2 Design, 1 Society
Local news – 3 media, 1 society, 1 Sustainability
Market – 2 Sustainability, 1 Media, 1 Design, Infrastructure

11. USER SCENARIO
He ventures to the PICNIC Trading Post to discuss strategy and trade/
collect resources with other architects.

12. Lorenz finds a teammate, and
they strategize trading methods
with other teammates to
complete the card combinations.
They tweet their combinations to
construct the city structure.

13. USER SCENARIO
An external Javascript site
pulls tweets and visualizes the
progression of each team’s city.

14. USER SCENARIO
Lorenz and his teammates see
what is lacking and continue
trading and attending events to
unlock their needed structures.
image by 123RF.com

15. USER SCENARIO
At the end of the conference, Lorenz & his team have created an ideal
urban city. He has also formed connections with many other PICNIC
attendees.