Playful By Design: 3rd International Conference
- Event Date: Thursday, November 7, 2024
- Time: 2:00 pm–6:00 pm (CST)
- Location: Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
The 3rd International Playful by Design conference at the University of Illinois will be held on November 7th–9th.
Registration for this event is open.
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About the Conference
Playful by Design is a local and global academic community of practice with shared and overlapping interests in game-relevant research, design, pedagogy, and technology.
As a network, it welcomes multidisciplinary activities pursued by teachers, scholars, artists, designers, and 3rd space professionals, within their own disciplines and in their own ways. Through creative collaborations, the sharing of resources, the development of team-based studio work and other experiential learning, this approach facilitates the emergence of transdisciplinary and global aspirations among students and faculty.
The 2024 Conference theme is GLOCAL—local communities of practices with global impact—illuminating the ways in which games, gaming, and gameful learning are becoming integrated into teaching, research, and design practices.
Workshops, papers, panels, posters and roundtables feature topics such as:
- How AI tools are changing game design practices
- Gameful pedagogies and classroom practices
- Immersive storytelling across media and culture
- Accessibility and inclusion in game-adjacent technologies
- Design and evaluation of socially transformative games in areas of global concern (inequality, conflict, sustainability)
Contact
For further information on this event, contact Game Studies at UIUC at game-studies@illinois.edu (email link).
All participants are welcome. To request disability-related accommodations for this event, please contact Brian Cudiamat at cudiamat@illinois.edu (email link) or (217) 244-5586.