The new book, edited by Réjane Dreifuss / Simon Hagemann / Izabella Pluta (eds.) Live Performance and Video Games Inspirations, Appropriations and Mutual Transfers 2024. Narrative strategies, immersion, interaction, participation, identification, multimodality, characters and the connection between physical and fictional or virtual worlds: the fields of inquiry into the complex relationship between...
Mary is to keynote the fantastic 20th annual Women in Games on Friday October 11th, the Day of the Girl, our virtual conference has a focussed theme of PLAY GROUNDED: An Exploration of Play Landscapes, which is curated through the lens of Women in Games. https://www.womeningames.org/sheri-graner-ray-mary-flanagan-aphra-kerr-to-keynote-wig-conference/...
The Strong Museum's American Journal of Play team interviewed Mary about games, art and critical play! Read the interview here. ...
Professor Flanagan participated in the Ditchley Foundation's thinktank on the "Impact of AI on work and education." Focusing on the large questions of our time, the group debated questions such as, "Should we be adopting a precautionary principle, waiting to see what unwanted effects might emerge?...
Card games are more often associated with family-gatherings or leisurely afternoons than with realizing social change. However, one group of game designers is creating games with an aim to do just that. Tiltfactor Lab, a Dartmouth College research laboratory with Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor Mary Flanagan...
SPIEL Essen is one of the world's largest board game conventions boasting of roughly 1000 exhibitiors and over 150,000 visitors annually. Professor Flanagan attended this year's extravaganza, meeting with many game designers and publishers. ...
Hypertherm is a 100% employee-owned company focusing on industrial cutting technologies and solutions and is leading the industry in this area. Their local campus in Lebanon, NH invited Tiltfactor to their annual human resources retreat in an effort to seek advice about how to enhance...
Homo Ludens, a youtube channel dedicated to history and board games, featured Mary Flanagan along with other game professionals and researchers in a stream that aired on Feb 27. The discussion centered around the evolution, ethics, and history of colonialist depiction in board games and...
Glitch Squad was created in a collaboration between Professor Mary Flanagan's game design publishing company, Resonym, LabX, a public engagement test bed at the National Academy of Sciences, and Tiltfactor Lab. The game is designed to interest the public on issues surrounding forensic science....
The goal of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communication is to "encourage high-quality science communication and build a diverse community of science journalists, research scientists, and institutions that will help society meet the challenges and opportunities posed by...