Workshop I · PlayLab: Laboratory of Experimentation with Video Games
Place: Medialab Prado · Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 Madrid
First part of the Playlab: Laboratory of Experimentation with Video Games, where eight selected projects will be developed. These projects aimed to explore the context of the game and the video game as a space for collaborative work and confluence of disciplines.
Tutors: Mar Canet, Antonin Fourneau, and Abelardo Gil-Fournier. Directed by Flavio Escribano.
Project presentation: Thursday, January 21 at 4:30 pm. [live streaming]
In collaboration with Arsgames. With the support of PlayStation®
Related people
The Pingus Plasticiline Experience project, by Plastic Interaction (Barcelona)
Selected proposals experiment with tangible interfaces, real objects as elements of the virtual game, table games with augmented reality, interactive sound spaces, viral games, etc.
The workshop is divided in two parts: January 21 through 24 and February 4 through 7, 2010.
The creation of the prototipes will beging during this first part of the workshop (January 21 through 24).
> Abstract of selected projects
> Call for collaborators (until January 20, 2010)
Schedule
Thursday, January 21
4:30 pm: Opening of the workshop and presentation of collaborators and selected proposals. [live streaming]
7.30 pm: Lecture by Mar Canet: The Video Game is a Laboratory [+info]
Friday, January 22
4:30 pm - 8:00 pm: Workshop
Saturday, January 23
11:00 am - 8:00 pm: Workshop
Sunday, January 24
11:00 am - 3:00 pm: Workshop and project presentations