More urban play technology: Body-tracking Tetris game lights up streets of Madrid

I’ve written before about the possibilities of playful technologies in urban spaces. But this project is all like “Whatever. I’m too busy being awesome to think about all that.”

Body tracking Tetris game lights up the streets of Madrid [video]:

Part public art project, part video game, Lummo Blocks has taken over the Plaza de Las Letras. Basically Tetris writ large, two players shuffle horizontally in front of the billboard-sized display: one controls the trajectory of the game piece, while the other rotates it into place. The goal of the designers, MediaLab Prado, is to “creat[e] an interaction between the passersby and the public space of the plaza.”