Alenka Poplin

About Alenka Poplin

In my research I concentrate on online geogames and their development and implementation for community engagement in planning. I also explore emotions and mapping evocative places. I love to dance, travel, swim, hike and take pictures of beautiful scenery. I lived and worked in Slovenia, Austria, Germany and US.

Selected Publications

Poplin, A., de Andrade, B. A. and Í.. S. de Sena. 2023. Let’s Discuss our City! Engaging Youth in the Co-Creation of Living Environments with Digital Serious GeoGames and Gamified Storytelling, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, first published online on October 24, 2022, Volume 50, Issue 4, May 2023, Pages 1087-1103., Poplin, A., Duffer, E. and G. Gartner. 2023. Well-Being Evocative Places: Validating the Conceptual Model of an Evocative Place (CMEP) based on the Inter-Rater Reliability Test, The International Cartographic Journal, first published online on September 24, 2022, DOI: 10.1080/23729333.2022.2091740, Volume 9, Issue 1, Taylor and Francis., Poplin, A., de Andrade, B. A. and I. S. de Sena. 2021 Geogames for change: co-designing the future of cities with games, In: Owens and Larke (eds) Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City,Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 64 - 94., Poplin, A., de Andrade, B. A., and S. Mahmud. 2021 Exploring Tangible and Intangible Characteristics of Evocative Places: Case Study of the City of Vitória in Brazil, Springer special issue on Modern Approaches to the Visualization of Landscapes, edited by Kühne, Jenal and Edler, p. 517 - 546, Springer.

Recent Courses Taught

Geogames for civic engagement

GIS fundamentals, Smart and sustainable cities, Study abroad to Vienna