Play in Education: Seriously?

What’s on offer?

Coventry University is are inviting you to join us for some fun educational game sessions. There will be four different areas to join:

• Homeless Monopoly has been developed to provide an insight into the barriers that people living on the streets face on a daily occurrence. You will join the game and become the playing piece throughout the game with the object of the game to gather enough resources and money to acquire a key to a property.
• DALI games have been created to increase peoples awareness of data literacy. You will experience DALI Life, a boardgame that will help you explore data and their impact in your daily life.
• Cardia, developed by colleagues from Manchester Metropolitan University, aims to explore wearables for influencing gameplay. You will jump on the spot and escape from slime monsters.
• Building the Sustainable City: The Game: 10 to 20 people will to come together and use playful imagination and game design techniques to imagine what a sustainable city might look like, how could it work, and what challenges its citizens might encounter.

What’s it about?

Homeless Monopoly has been developed to provide an insight into the barriers that people living on the streets face on a daily occurrence. You will join the game and become the playing piece throughout the game with the object of the game to gather enough resources and money to acquire a key to a property.

DALI games have been created to increase peoples awareness of data literacy. You will experience DALI Life, a boardgame that will help you explore data and their impact in your daily life.

Cardia, developed by colleagues from Manchester Metropolitan University, aims to explore wearables for influencing gameplay. You will jump on the spot and escape from slime monsters.

Building the Sustainable City: The Game: aims to use playful imagination and game design techniques to imagine what a sustainable city might look like, how could it work, and what challenges its citizens might encounter.

Who’s leading the event?

The GameChangers team (Ludic Design) and the team from Manchester Metropolitan University:

• Homeless Monopoly – Jayne Beaufoy and Sylvester Arnab, CU.
• DALI – Mark Lewis and Alex Masters, CU.
• Cardia – John Henry and Connah Kendrick, MMU.

Building the Sustainable City: Luca Morini, Centre for Global Learning.

Open to

Children, young people and families. All children and young people (aged under 18) must be accompanied by an adult.

Of particular interest to

Families, children, young people, game enthusiasts. 

Event booking deadline