Urban development can be seen as a game, one with teams of different sizes and types which are changing, interlacing or including each other, in which actions, reactions and negotiations between individual and collective interests take place all the time. The game has explicit or implicit rules and it oscillates between a relative autonomy and a dependence on general evolutions (social, cultural and economic). If true urbanity assumes the presence of a community and the idea of participation, in terms of a game, it means the passage from personal interests and activities to collaboration and involvement.

Romania’s pavilion in the 2006 edition of the Venice Biennale contains two essential elements: the exhibition, which presents the territorial reality, the tendencies and the alternatives, and an installation – a game called REMIX!– inviting to involvement.

The game is built based on the nine sections of the exhibition. These essential fragments become pieces, containing a symbolic question and four possibilities for an answer. Visitors must remix the given collection, that is to choose one answer for each question and therefore compose a multiple image – their own project for the development of the Romanian territory. The idea governing this game is the presumption that, in order to undertake a responsibility, the first step is to state your personal opinions on a general evolution, all that, beyond your personal and immediate interests. The game gives a shape to this first step. This should be followed by a dialogue between the different positions and then by negotiation and by an accepted evolution.