Hacknight
Recorded August 27, 2024
Topic: Pixels to Parks: Open Space Sandbox Leveraging Gaming for Community Design
How can we transform our favourite video games into community engagement tools? We're thrilled to show how we're leveraging these immersive experiences to inspire and develop our park design software.
Speaker: Hayley Oleksiak
Driven by a passion for smart, sustainable development, Hayley Oleksiak is a Senior Analyst at James Lima Planning + Development, creating urban solutions from site-specific to regional scales. Inspired by her childhood love of SimCity, she founded Open Space Sandbox (https://www.openspacesandbox.com/) to develop gamified citizen engagement tools that empower communities to design equitable and vibrant open spaces.
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