Athens City Game
This is a paper and pencil game for 1 to 3 people about Athens city, players should draw the most safety graffiti visiting route. As children explored the game’s map, they quickly learned about key landmarks, streets, and historical figures. When they faced challenges, more experienced players could assist. Working collaboratively allowed students to leverage their strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, and misconceptions, complementing one another so the group could solve problems and learn together.
This game was based on the study explores the correlation between street graffiti and spatial cognitive indicators in the first district of Athens, and transform all those features into a boardgame for a better learning of Athens city. The graffiti status was divided into four categories and street view cognition was rated into six dimensions, visualized by mapping with more than 30,000 street scenes in more than 7,000 geographical locations. Further, using regression and correlation test and other data analysis, we find that graffiti status is positively correlated with the index of "lively and depressing" and negatively correlated with the index of "safety, clean, wealthy, and beautiful", revealing the complex impact of graffiti on urban spatial cognition.