Anders Eklund, Gaming the Real World, 2016
Can games change the world? Today public spaces and entire cities are being designed, planned and played through the medium of games. The result of this “civic gamification” is that city architecture and urban planning is being democratized. Cities have become the ground zero for digital innovation and the debate about how our cities evolve has suddenly gone viral.Released in April 2016, the film focuses on three stories; the video game Minecraft’ which is being used by the UN in the Block by Block initiative; City Skylines, a popular city building video game with a large community participation and ‘Block’hood’, the video game created by Jose Sanchez. Block’hood is featured as the architect’s story, were an independent development has introduced architectural ideas to the world of game design. The film follows the life of Jose Sanchez to understand the environment in which these ideas have emerged and what is at stake at the moment of designing a project like this one.
Anders Eklund is a director and producer of television series and documentary films. His career in the TV business started 1998 at the Swedish production company Strix Television, editing TV shows like Survive, the Bar, Come Dine With Me and other prime time TV shows at the time. 2006 he started the production company Luckyday and since then he has been producing and directing non stop for clients like Discovery, BBC, SVT, Warner Brothers and Ericsson, creating international shows like Nordic Cookery, Ibrahimovic - The Documentary and the feature documentary Gaming the Real World. Anders lives in Malmö, Sweden with his family.
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