The programme and registration for the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2025: Games, Conflict, and Education is now available! This hybrid outreach event is co-funded by the Erasmus+ ROCKET project; the Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice; Region Gotland; and…
Big news! We are delighted to announce that members of Uppsala University are partnering with larp practitioners and academics in a new EU-funded project in Horizon Europe, ‘Larpocracy: Developing Spaces for Deliberation and Democratic Skills through Role-playing’. UU’s Informatics and…
Dates: June 12-13, 2025 Times: 9-5pm both days Location: Visby, Sweden, on the island of Gotland The Transformative Play Initiative at Uppsala University’s Department of Game Design is co-hosting a two-day seminar on Games, Conflict, and Education directly following the…
We have created an archive that contains games developed for transformative purposes by students in the Transformative Game Design Certificate Track. Click this link to browse the games.
This presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Queer experience has, until very recently, been invisible or significantly misrepresented in cultural and scholarly fields of record including history,…
Join us for our next lecture in the Transformative Play Initiative Event Series: “Restorying Trans Game Studies: Playing with Memory, Fiction, and Magic for Transformative Identity Work” by Theresa Jean Tanenbaum! When: November 29, 2022, 7-8:30pm Where: Online on Zoom…
Announcing the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022 at Uppsala University Campus Gotland in Sweden! Organized by the Games & Society Lab at the Department of Game Design with financial support from the Sustainable Heritage Research Forum (SuHRF), this hybrid online and…
Announcing the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022 at Uppsala University Campus Gotland in Sweden! Organized by the Games & Society Lab at the Department of Game Design with financial support from the Sustainable Heritage Research Forum (SuHRF), this hybrid online and…
Join us for our next lecture in the Transformative Play Initiative Event Series: “Journey into Fear: Horror as a Vehicle for Healing and Transformative Play” by Yeonsoo Julian Kim!When: March 15, 2022, 7 – 8:30 PM Central European Time (CET)Where:…