Transformative Play Initiative – Josefin Westborg, Sarah Lynne Bowman, Josephine Baird and Kjell Hedgard Hugaas
We are delighted to announce and present the Transformative Play Initiative at the Department of Game Design at Uppsala University Campus Gotland with focus on analog role-playing games!
Are you involved in designing or implementing transformative play experiences or just curious about it? Do you work with these topics in your research or pedagogy? If so, come and hear what we are planning and let’s see what synergies we can find!
We are particularly interested in applied play, in which games are employed as a means to assist participants on their journeys of growth for personal and social transformation.
Our goals include:
– Developing accessible tools for designing and facilitating transformative play experiences;
– Building online and on campus graduate programs in Transformative Game Design for practitioners in helping professions such as teachers, social workers, psychologists, therapists etc;
– Hosting workshops, lectures, round-tables, and seminars featuring experts in the field
– Collaborating with international partners on research projects;
– Maintaining an open-access archive of relevant research, documentation, design tools, and best practices;
– Securing physical spaces for experimental design, play, and research to take place; and
– Producing academic and popular source materials on theory, practice, and case studies.
Content declaration: mental health, trans experiences
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This talk was recorded at the international larp conference Knutepunkt 2021.