I discovered the Visiblecity.ca website yesterday.
The Visible City Project seeks to understand how artists and urbanists are engaging with issues of citizenship (from work on homelessness to new kinds of urban design and public art) inside cities. The project investigates how art practices (visual and media arts, performance and literary) might be used to educate and transform the experience of urban dwelling and planning in light of the changing technological, economic and cultural experiences of globalization. The research examines artistic practices and urban planning that engages not only with the unique sense of the local but also the trans-local, strengthening connections to other places through new cultural circuits (Festivals, Biennales, Events, the Web). The project is currently focused on trans-local networks in three cities: Toronto, Havana and Helsinki. The work generated by the project (interviews, artists projects and urban interventions) is published in the Visible City Archive on an on-going basis.
Relevance: Although, they don’t discuss games, I believe street and outdoor mobile games provide the opportunity to share, educate, and entertain participants in urban spaces in an active manner. Public art can be quite passive in my opinion.
Found via a cool blog I follow out of Toronto, Canada called Spacing wire.