This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: In this presentation I ask how role-playing in applied drama could be used as a method for researching organization culture,…

This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Roleplay at museums is commonly discussed from the perspective of visitor experiences [1], but it can also be an important…

This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: This work explores the influence of objects on thoughts and how they can help reflect on a place’s memories. The…

This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: There are numerous theories and studies from different fields such as psychology (Erikson 1950, Marcia 1966, Piaget 1972, Jung 1976),…

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…