This poster presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Role play is a foundational component of established forms of psychotherapy such as psychodrama (Kipper 1992). Recent literature has…
This poster presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: In Technologies of the Self (1988), philosopher and sociologist Michel Foucault summarizes his life work as an analysis of…
This presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Spaces for queer discourse remain limited and continue to be marginalized in media. In an act of reclamation, the Queer…
This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Role-playing games (RPGs) undeniably possess common elements with rituals and myths. The study of these elements remains a timely issue…
This presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Depression is a common mental health issue in today’s society, unfortunately, mental healthcare is not easily accessible to a large…
This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Modern museum education has a focus on interactivity and visitor engagement. Edu-larp expands traditional teaching methods and facilitates the development…
This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Swallowed by neighbouring empires for 123 years, Poland’s sense of identity relied mainly on prosthetic memory of its pre-colonial past:…
This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: When designing role-playing games and larps, in contrast to digital games, the design will often include not only what happens…
This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Can an RPG teach sign language to hearing middle schoolers? As role-playing games move from the recreational sphere to applied…
This presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Educational live action role-play (edu-larp) has a huge potential as a learning tool in both formal and informal education. There…