Chris Joseph

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http://handson-games.eventbrite.com/

HandsOn Games and Interactive Digital for Social Change is focused on bringing together best of practice developments, developers, innovators, and commissioners creating digital means to highlight important issues and aid social change.

Join us for an afternoon of demos, peer meeting, discussion and hands on experiences with a wide range of developers and users of games and interactives for social change. The aims of the day are to:

* Experience and experiment with games and interactive digital creations developed for social change and to highlight important issues.

* Learn and share ideas and designs from practitioners’ experience of creating and disseminating games for social change – focus on the opportunities to play with the end results.

* Build a collective view of the state of the field – do we have agreed parameters, how are we learning and adapting to the changing landscape of digital training?

* Debate important drivers shaping this field – new technologies, an increasingly growing sector, changing appetites among service users and innovators.

* Identify the priorities for further events, strengthen your networks and negotiate the collaborations that will help the field shift gear. The workshop is participatory.

Demo machines are on hand to engage with the projects.

Show and tell will be relaxed and speakers will provide impetus, but you will have ample opportunity to pursue your goals.

Games and Interactives on show :

DeadEnds by RollingSounds (about issues around knife crime in the UK)
http://www.channel4.com/news/microsites/D/disarming_britain/deadends.html

FloodSim by PlayGen (about issues around flooding in the UK)
http://www.floodsim.com

Climate Challange by Red Redemption (about issues around climate change)
http://red-redemption.com

GameLab - http://www.gamelablondon.com/ (more details coming soon)

Resist and Other development by Germination http://germination.co.uk/ (discussion from the point of view of producers commissioning a number of mechanisms for social change)

Darfur is Dying by Susana Ruiz - http://www.darfurisdying.com/

PeaceMaker by ImpactGames - http://www.peacemakergame.com

Disaffected by Persuasive Games

and more…

When : Tuesday 30th September 12:30 till 6:00 pm followed by Drinks at Hoxton Bar

Where : Shoreditch Building - 35 Kingsland Road, London. Nearest Tubes Old Street and Liverpool Street.

What : Demos, talks, group discussion, tech and apps to see, hear and play with.

Devised and hosted by PlayGen and supported by SEMN

http://www.arvonfoundation.org/pc344.html

Collaborate on scripting a piece of new media literature – interactive, multimedia, transliterate – and a riveting read. We’ll look at blogs, podcasts, games and animations, see the best of what’s creative on the web, clear our heads of technophobia and make something special together.

Tutors:

Kate Pullinger
Kate Pullinger works both in print and new media. Her most recent novel was A Little Stranger (Serpent’s Tail) and digital fiction projects include her collaboration with Chris Joseph on ‘Inanimate Alice’, an award winning piece of multimedia episodic digital fiction. Visit www.katepullinger.com.

Chris Meade
Chris Meade is Co-Director of the Institute for the Future of the Book, deviser of innovative creative reading projects and collaborator on writing comedy, cartoons, community poems and on-line experiments. Visit www.futureofthebook.org.uk, www.bookfutures.blogspot.com and www.insearchoflosttim.net

Guests:

Chris Joseph
Chris Joseph is a Suffolk-born electronic writer and artist whose past projects include ‘Inanimate Alice‘ (with Kate Pullinger); the bike-powered multimedia installation ‘NRG‘; and ‘Animalamina‘, a collection of interactive multimedia poetry for children. He is editor of the post-dada magazine and network 391.org, and was the first Digital Writer in Residence at De Montfort University, Leicester from 2006-2008. Visit www.chrisjoseph.org.

Lumb Bank - The Ted Hughes Arvon Centre
Heptonstall, Hebden Bridge
West Yorkshire

Tel: 01422 843714
Fax: 01422 843714
Email: lumbbank@arvonfoundation.org