10: Don’t mess with our education! Creating new Utopias!
”Don’t mess with our education” is a playful, rebellious and profound exploration of the educational system and its main audience: students. Leveraging game design methods and psycho-pedagogical tools, seminar participants are going to create three short, non-digital game vignettes that revolve around three concepts that are central to every consideration around education design.
The goal of this week is not an implementation-ready plan for new educational systems. The goal is to present a nuanced, reflective, systemic and personal profile of the experience of education (and the hopes for the life beyond) from the perspective of the learners. This will be helpful to University leadership in their curricular considerations. More importantly, though, this week aims to empower the participants themselves to see the “big picture” of THEIR education, what it means to them and what they can do to get what they need – not just from a degree, but from life.
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Dr. Konstantin MITGUTSCH
Affiliate Researcher, MIT Game Lab, MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Founder and Managing Director, Playful Solutions, Vienna
| 2004-2009 | Scientific Assistant, Lecturer: Department of General Education & Media Education, University of Vienna |
| 2009 | Max Kade Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Education Arcade, Cambridge, MA |
| 2010-2013 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT GAME LAB and Singapore-MIT GAMBIT, Cambridge, MA |
| 2011 | Visiting Professor, Department of Education, University of Vienna |
| since 2014 | Lecturer, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna |
| Founder and Managing Director, Playful Solutions, Vienna |
Dr. Doris C. RUSCH
Associate Professor for Game Design, School of Design, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
| 2001-2004 | Doctoral Studies, University of Vienna |
| 2005-2007 | Post Doctoral Researcher, Institute for Design and Assessment of Technologies, University of Technology Vienna |
| 2007-2010 | Post Doctoral Researcher, MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA |
| 2011-2017 | Assistant Professor for Game Design, College of Computing and Digital Media, DePaul University, Chicago, IL |
| since 2017 | Associate Professor for Game Design, College of Computing and Digital Media, DePaul University, Chicago, IL |
