Learning outcomes

At the end of this Short Advanced Programme, students will be able to:

• know crucial concepts and approaches of game design, theoretical approaches and indices of ecological, social and economic sustainability
• be capable of developing and prototypically realising a concept focusing on future challenges (eg climate change, social segregation, digital divide) using games as a medium or creating playful experience(s)
• work in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams
• communicate solutions for societal real problems and challenges that demand innovation and various skills

How to apply
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Deadline for applications
1 September 2022

Selection criteria
Motivation, learning objectives and a broad representation of subject areas and balanced participation of RUN-EU member institutions.

To be able to better discuss this topic, students need to understand:

• Game cultures
• Dimensions of sustainability
• Best practices for project presentations
• Playful methods in future design (eg speculative design)
• Formal and dramatic elements of games
• Games as systems, economics of games
• Approaches to and methods of game design (playcentric approach)
• Community-centred design 
• Designing digital games, urban games, social impact games, serious games, mixed reality games, alternate reality games
• Interaction design in games
• Design and implementation of social interaction in games
• Game content and design considerations to evoke motivation
• Creation of playful elements in immersive environments and affective infrastructures (eg for exhibitions and/or in the museum context)
• Motivation to play vs motivation to change beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours
• Storytelling, dramaturgy and visual design of games