Open House of Game//Play Education Lab

Open

House

Of

Game//Play

Education Lab

When: From 25th of July to 19th of August

Where: Center for Teaching Development and Digital Media, Aarhus University, Paludan Müllers Vej 48, Room 136

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ReThink & Game//Play with us

you might get inspired!

from 25th July to 19th August the Aarhus University MA Summer Course Game.Play.Design: ReThink will take place at Center for Teaching Development and Digital Media.

The course will conclude with a game exhibition at the main library in Aarhus consisting of Game.Play.Design: ReThink talks, posters, videopithes and game prototypes.

The course aims to be a living Game//Play exploratorium & experimentarium working with rethinking the potentials and possibilities of Game//Play in relation to gamesystems, gameworlds, and gameinterfaces.

Read more about the course here:

h"p://www.au.dk/en/summeruniversity/courses/gameplaydesign-‐rethink/

Game.Play.Design: ReThink is organized as a 4 week course:

•  Week 1 Theorizing: theoretical foundation for rethinking gameplay,

•  Week 2 Empathizing: ethnographic work and world explorations for rethinking gameplay,

•  Week 3 Conceptualizing: design process to construct a prototype that rethinks gamedesign based on the theoretical and empirical knowledge,

•  Week 4 Finalizing: working towards the final exhibition of prototype, poster, pitch, and presentation at Dokk1 August 19, 11-16

If you have any questions

you are more than welcome to contact

Associate professor

Rikke Toft Nørgård,

head of House of Game//Play

and one of the educators of the course

Email: [email protected] & Twitter: @RikkeToftN

Open House of Game//Play talks: Theorizing Game//Play

•  Monday 25th July 13-17: GameJam: ReThink Game//Play

•  Tuesday 26th July 10-12: ReThinking gamesystems as rules & play

•  Wednesday 27th july 11-13: ReThinking gameworlds as spaces & places

•  Thursdag 28th July 11-13: ReThinking Gameinterfaces as materials & modalities

•  Friday 29th July 11-13: ReThinking Game.Play.Design in the Field

Open House of Game//Play Studio: Designing Game//Play

•  Monday 8th August10-14: combining theory and field work to ReThink Game//Play

•  Tuesday 9th August 10-12: ReThinking tools and processes for Game//Play Design

•  Wednesday 10th august 12-14: reThinking gamer experience

•  Thursdag 11th August 12-14: designing Games for change: ReThinking Game//Play

•  Friday 12th August 12-14: Assessing Game//Play: value & evaluation

Friday 19th August 11-16: Game.Play.Design: ReThink Game//Play exhibition at Dokk1

talks, posters, videos, prototypesListen, experience, discuss, play

Monday 25th July 13-17Open House of Game//Play GameJam:

ReThink Game.Play.Design

Come and gamejam with the local & international students of the Game.Play.Design Aarhus University Master Summer Course. Together we do a Game.Play.Design sprint and play with robots to rethink and redesign quirky games together for a couple of hours. There will even be prizes!

The GameJam will kick off with an introductory talk by Associate Professor Rikke Toft Nørgård on creative constraints as a driver for ideation and innovation in game design.

Educator:

Associate professor,


Center for Teaching Development and Digital Media, Aarhus University

Tuesday 26th July. 10-12Open House of Game//Play Talk: ReThinking

GameSystems

This talk introduces to digital games as game systems through classic theories and works on rules and play - then invites participants to ReThink existing gamesystems as a creative constraints for envisioning new forms of rules and play in digital games

Educator:

Assistant Professor,

Claus Toft-Nielsen,


Wednesday 27th July, 11-13Open House of Game//Play Talk:

ReThinking Gameworlds

This talk introduces to digital games as game worlds through central works on game spaces and their role in shaping the worlds of digital games - then invites participants to ReThink existing game worlds as a creative constraints for envisioning new forms of spaces and places in digital games

Educator:


Claus Toft-Nielsen,


Thursday 28th July, 11-13Open House of Game//Play Talk:

ReThinking Gameinterfaces

This talk introduces to digital games as game interfaces through drawing in works from the periphery of game studies and game materials as both tangible and digital, onscreen and offscreen as well as working with the different modalities that games can engage through gameplay - then invites participants to ReThink existing game interfaces as a creative constraints for envisioning new forms of materialties and modalities in gameplay.

Educator:


Claus Toft-Nielsen,


Friday 29th July, 11-13Open House of Game//Play Talk:

ReThinking Game.Play.Design in the field

This talk introduces to the role and potentials of ethnographic field work in game design processes. It accentuates the importance of understanding the specific context of and site for gameplay as well as points towards the unique possibilities arising when designing games for specific settings, experiences, and users - then introduces specific tools to be utilized in ethnographically informed design processes

Educator: Associate professor, Rikke Toft Nørgård,Center for Teaching Development and Digital Media, Aarhus University

Monday 8th August, 10-14Open Game//Play Design Studio:

Combining theory & field work to ReThink Game//Play

Experience the local and international Game.Play.Design groups present insights and game design ideas from their field work. The groups are working on ReThinking game design in creative ways through rethinks what game systems, game worlds and/or game interfaces might look like in game designs aimed at innovating in specific ethnographic contexts. Educators will provide feedback and reflections on the insights as well as point towards the design ideas strongest innovative potentials.

Educators: Associate professor, Rikke Toft Nørgård,Center for Teaching Development and Digital Media, Aarhus University& Senior Educational Design Scientist, Yishay Mor,PAU Education, Barcelona

Tuesday 9th August, 10-12Open Game//Play Design Studio:

ReThinking tools and processes for

Game.Play.Design

Gain insight into different models for engaging game design through design processes - Get introduced to different tools, phases, and approaches in the game design process, notably Jesse Schell’s The Art of Game Design. Get introduced to central components in the design process and their role when trying to innovate game systems, game worlds and game interfaces in creative ways.

Educator:




Wednesday 10th August, 12-14Open Game//Play Design Studio:

reThinking gamer experience

A gamer experience is always a learner experience. So, what do gamers learn when engaged in different types of game//play? How is gamers experience and learning tied to the systems, worlds, and interfaces of games? How can we ReThink the gamer experience so possibilities for new kinds of learning in games emerge? And how can we work with ReThinking the systems, worlds, and interfaces of games to enable new forms of gamer experience?

Educator:

Senior Educational Design Scientist,

Yishay Mor,

PAU Education, Barcelona

Thursday 11th August, 12-14Open Game//Play Design Studio:

designing Games for change: ReThinking Game//Play

Game//Play has the ability to create change in society and people's lives. It has the ability to change viewpoints and behaviors, to create opinions and persuade. Through examples, we discuss some of the bigger points of Game//Play, and reflect on what potentials and dangers there lie nested inside the Game//Play experiences and interactions. How can games ReThink game systems, game worlds and game interfaces to create valuable and meaningful change? Should they create change or remain ‘mere play’? What innovative power lies in ReThinking the point of Game//Play and its role in the world?

Educator:




Friday 12th August, 12-14Open Game//Play Design Studio:

Assessing Game//Play: value & evaluation

How do we create valuable Game//Play and how do we argue for the creation of it? How do we create a strong argument for the value of our game design? And if we have succeeded in creating and arguing for the design of Game//Play with value how do we then proceed to evaluate it? What tools can be employed to gauge whether our game design actually have the value we argued for? And which evaluation tools are relevant for which value arguments?

Educator:

Senior Educational Design Scientist,

Yishay Mor,

PAU Education, Barcelona

Friday 19th August, 11-16, Dokk1House of Game//Play, GameTalk @ Dokk1,

2017 Academy & CUDiM presents: Game.Play.Design Exhibition

a day devoted to creative gamethinking and gametinkering at Dokk1 in Aarhus. game design teams from the Aarhus University Summer Course Game.Play.Design: ReThink will:•  showcase their game prototypes, •  give short talks on rethinking game

systems, game worlds and game interfaces,

•  Present video pitches of how their rethinking plays out,

•  and display posters with their 4 week long and intense design process and design work.

The talks will take place between 11-13 and prototypes, pitches and posters can be experienced and discussed with the design teams from 13-16

ReThink is the heading of Aarhus 2017 - European Capital of Culture

For 4 weeks all Game.Play.Design teams have been actively engaged in rethinking Game//Play and the interactions and experiences games make possible.

The teams have been working with ReThinking and innovating in relation to gamesystems, gameworlds, and gameinterfaces.

Come and join us for celebratory day of ReThinking Game//Play

together with the design teams from Game.Play.Design:ReThink

Aarhus University

Educators:Rikke Toft Nørgård & Claus Toft-NielsenCenter for Teaching Development and Digital media, Aarhus University&John Murray, Director of Stanford Research Institute International & GlassLabGames