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  • Programme and Registration Available! Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2025: Games, Conflict, and Education2025-05-01
    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 the Department of Game Design. Dates: June 12-13, 2025, 8-16 CEST Location: Hybrid online and… Read more: Programme and Registration Available! Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2025: Games, Conflict, and Education
  • Horizon Europe Larpocracy Project2024-10-04
    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 Media, Political Science, and the Transformative Play Initiative at Game Design are participating. Larpocracy aims… Read more: Horizon Europe Larpocracy Project
  • CFP: Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2025: Games, Conflict, and Education2024-09-26
    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 Gotland Game Conference (GGC) in Visby, Sweden together with the Erasmus+ ROCKET Consortium. The seminar… Read more: CFP: Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2025: Games, Conflict, and Education
  • Archive for Transformative Game Design Student Work2023-01-22
    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.    
  • TPI Seminar 2022: Experience China’s Intangible Cultural Heritages in Role-playing Games — Yuqiao Liu2022-12-03
    This poster presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: In recent years, considerable attention has been devoted to preserving intangible cultural heritage (ICH) through games. From combined game studies and heritage studies perspective, role-playing games (RPGs) have a unique advantage that immerses the… Read more: TPI Seminar 2022: Experience China’s Intangible Cultural Heritages in Role-playing Games — Yuqiao Liu
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