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…
This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Can play be transformative of individuals and collectives, groups and cultures? And if so what characteristics make it so? Taking…
This presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: My name is Kaya Toft Thejls and I am a master’s student at The Centre for Gender Studies, Uppsala University.…
This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: The main research topic of this paper is “Murder Mystery Game” (MMG), which is very popular among the Chinese highly…
This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Walking simulators are an odd videogame genre. Due to their lack of remarkable gameplay features, one may be inclined to…
This presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: In recent years, as Dungeons and Dragons has entered the mainstream American cultural zeitgeist, the use of Role Playing 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…