DML2014 - Featured Session 2 - Playing For Keeps
3DML2014 - Featured Session 2 - Playing For Keeps: Gameful Design for Real-World Action and Social Change
Thursday, March 6th 2:00pm -- 3:30pm
Organizer: Eric Gordon
Participants: Scot Osterweil, Eric Gordon, Pablo Suarez
Discussant: Gene Koo
The world's problems are too serious not to play. And games provide an ideal framework through which to shape that play. There is considerable evidence that games can enhance learning outcomes and increase efficacy in group decisions. When young people play games, they retain more (and differently) through solving challenges, exploring, competing and imagining. Increasingly, games are being designed and deployed outside of school settings where young players can become activists, public advocates, leaders, and mentors. This panel explores how games, digital and analog, are impacting civic life and engaging young people in humanitarian and development efforts in the United States and abroad.
Pablo Suarez is associate director for research and innovation at the Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre. He has consulted for more than twenty humanitarian and development organizations, working in over 60 countries helping to link scientific knowledge with real-world decisions -- often through participatory games.
Scot Osterweil is the Creative Director of the Education Arcade and a research director in the MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing Program. He is a designer of award-winning educational games, working in both academic and commercial environments, and his work has focused on what is authentically playful in challenging academic subjects.
Eric Gordon is the director of the Engagement Lab (http://engagementgamelab.org) and an associate professor in the department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College where he focuses on the design and research of games and social software that foster local civic engagement. He is also a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
Gene Koo is Principal of the Good Games Group, which helps organizations make strategic, practical, and sustainable use of new media to achieve their mission. Gene has a particular passion for pro-social video games.
(A video played during this session contains music from "Derek" by Animal Collective)
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