9th July 2014, 10:30 – 15:30, Room 826
Institute of Education – Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL
Free to attend. RSVP to r.mitchell@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