This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: We elaborate a grounded-theoretic (Glaser & Strauss 1967) approach to discovering a framework for understanding the way that tabletop role-playing…

This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Tarot, though traditionally used for “fortune telling” purposes, can also be a tool for story generation and self-reflection. Based on…

This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Many of us occupy multiple conflicting roles in society—both conforming to and challenging the social structures we inhabit. For example,…

This presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: In my research in embodied arts, I’m interested in the constructive relationship between the players’ creative fiction and their lived…

This presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Scholars have documented the varied presence of erotic play in role-playing games, from using health scores to determine if a…

This presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Gaming capital – a fifteen-year-old theory detailing how one’s gaming knowledge can be conceptualized into something tangible. Consalvo in her…

This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: This paper aims to present an overview of analog role-playing games in Brazil. For this, it uses a mixed method…

This presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: The Brazilian Modern Art Week, a milestone in the Brazilian artistic avant-garde (Nascimento 2015), completes its centenary in 2022. The…

This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Games have the power to raise awareness of crises in society, build agency and empower search for solutions. In the…

This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Play cultures (Williams, Hendricks, and Winkler 2006; Bowman 2017) and meta-play (Boluk and LeMieux 2017) drive most game design, particularly…