Wired likes local project’s use of video games to fight urban decay

Wired magazine took notice of local designer Giacomo Ciminello’s use of video game play to help re-invigorate blighted spaces through his People’s Liberty grant project, Spaced Invaders. Soapbox was on hand Aug. 27 for the project’s first public display in Walnut Hills.

“I like the idea of just ‘spaced invaders’ because that is literally what we are doing,” Ciminello tells Wired. “We aren’t destroying property, we aren’t making permanent marks. We are having fun, and opening up people’s eyes to possibility. Why is this parking lot here? Empty? … What does this neighborhood or community need and can it be in this space? That’s the kind of dialogue we are hoping for.”

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