HYBRID GAMING URBANISM
The new city of Abuja was designed by foreign consultants, with rarely any documented community involvement, creating a more top-down approach to the formation of the city. This project proposes a design framework that could be implemented in Abuja as a form of participatory design that respectfully engages with the inhabitants through the author’s designed game, Build My Community: Jahi. The design proposes a rammed earth resource wall that players co-design their desired spaces around it, using the BMC game with, in which NPC members of the virtual community give guides and quests to aid the players’ proposed spaces.