Playful Meaning-Making as Prosocial Fun

Smart city infrastructures enable the routine interleaving and integration of diverse activities, including new ways to play, be playful, participate. We discuss three examples: (1) citizen-based water quality monitoring, which combines outdoor exercise social interaction with safeguarding public supplies, (2) a digital scavenger hunt, experiences community arts festival shared reflections about significant places events, (3) thanking, encourages people acknowledge neighbors local groups that serve strengthen community. Each these possibilities in itself alters lived experience modestly. argue lightweight playful meaning making activities can prosocial fun, is say, they simultaneously but also substantive contributions coherence richness