[DiGRA UK] Digital Games Seminar, IOE, London: 9th July 2014

[Alison Gazzard]

Digital Games Seminar: Spaces and Embodiment in Games and Virtual Worlds
9th July 2014
10:30 - 15:30
Room 826
Institute of Education
Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL

Free to attend. RSVP to r.mitchell at ioe.ac.uk<mailto:r.mitchell at ioe.ac.uk>
This event is supported by MODE and DARE.

Talks by Alison Gazzard, Diane Carr and Andrew Burn (IOE)
Invited speakers: Tom Apperley (UNSW) and Seth Giddings (UWE).

For more information see: http://darecollaborative.net/2014/06/12/spaces-and-embodiment-in-games-and-virtual-worlds/

Schedule
10:30  Arrival (Tea and Coffee)

11:00 – 11:30
Paths, Possibilities and Places: approaches to thinking about space and time in videogames (Alison Gazzard, IOE)

11:30 – 12:00
What is disembodied play? A collective review and discussion of ‘games and embodiment’ literature  (Diane Carr, IOE)

12:00 – 12:30
Multimodal approaches to games: designing space and action (Andrew Burn, IOE)

12:30 – 13:30
Lunch

13:30 – 14:15
Gaming’s networked imaginary: Transnational rhythms and global citizenship (Tom Apperley, UNSW, Australia)

14:15 – 15:00
Configuring the 15-second Dancer: designing for embodied play (Seth Giddings, UWE)

15:00
Closing comments

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