Shade, Michael Johansson, Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013

Ludic Studies

Inquiring game & play culture through theory and practice

 

Course leader, co-teaching with Joshua Griffins

 

 

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List of subjects

 

• History & Archeology of games and play

• Play in the development of human society and education

• A definition of play & classifications of games

• Principles, Types, Rules and Ethics of Play

• Ludology and narratology

• Pleasure and fun in games & play

• Csikszentmihalyi’s flow theory

• Serious games & play

• Speculative and critical play

• The transformative power of play

• Gamification & ludification

• The pleasure of limits & boredom

 

Bibliography

 

• Man, Play and Games, Roger Caillois, University of Illinois Press, 2001

• Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture, Johan Huizinga, Angelico Press, 2016 (1938)

• The Game Design Reader, A Rules of Play Anthology, Katie Salen & Eric Zimmerman, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006

• Rules of Play, Game Design Fundamentals, Katie Salen & Eric Zimmerman, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004