The department of Game Design at Uppsala University, campus Gotland
8 hours, 80+ participants, 13 games delivered!
Winner Best Interpretation: ‘Froggo Poggo’ by Team SuperAwesomeDynamitePlatinumPowers
Winner Best Execution: Â ‘The Frogmament’ by Team Superawesome
Winner Most Fun: ‘Lick Lick!’ by Team Nick Nick
Our own Kayode “K” Shonibare-Lewis is giving a talk on the 25th, titled “Racial Bias, Reverse Heredity and the Parents of Custom Avatars”
Tickets to participate in the whole conference, September 23-27, 2021, are available here.
Students from the Department of Game Design can apply for partial funding, which is paid retroactively. Contact gamedesign@speldesign.uu.se for the application.
Playfulness is the key transformation. Games are the key to the embodied experience of alternative ways of acting & being. How can we harness the alchemy of play for the transformation of Self and others? Prof. Rusch discusses lessons learnt from her Deep Game Design work & the creation of The Witch’s Way a game that sources imagery ritual and symbolism for personal empowerment and inner integrity
Klick here to come directly to the zoom-meeting
UppTalk Weekly is a popular science seminar series via Zoom where you get to enjoy interesting conversations and interdisciplinary panel discussions with researchers from Uppsala University every Tuesday at lunch. The conversations revolve around socially relevant topics and where you as an audience have the opportunity to ask questions to our researchers. UppTalk Weekly is a part of the Faculty for Science and Technology’s online continuing education initiative for alumni and society.
Read more about UppTalk Weekly here
Reception is fully open from 23 August
Staff from Student services and Helpdesk at hand at certain hours – to be announced week 33.
24-26 August
Online Information sessions on a number of themes. For international students www.campusgotland.uu.se/welcome/info_sessions/
25-26 AugustÂ
Shuttle service from Visby airport and Visby ferry terminal (registration required).
27 August 14:30
Digital Welcome Ceremony (more information will come later).
3 September
Train tour around Visby´s inner city during lunch hours.
3 and 5 September
Gotland history lecture with Mikael Norrby in room B51.
4-5 September
Guided walking tour around medieval Visby with the university guide Mikael Norrby (small groups; several occasions to choose from; registration required).
All details at www.campusgotland.uu.se/welcome/