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Video Games and Museums Programme:
Educational Digital Tools for the Participatory GLAM Space
VENUE National Museum of Finland + University of Helsinki
TIME 6 – 7 May 2018
Day 1 (Sunday 6 May, 13:30-18:00)
VENUE National Museum of Finland
13:30 OPENING WORDS
Xenia Zeiler (South Asian Studies, University of Helsinki) + Suzie E. Thomas (Cultural Heritage, University of Helsinki)
The Project Digital Educational Tools Development – Durgapuja and Museums
Hanna Forssell (National Museum of Finland)
Welcome and Opening Words
13:45 – 15:45 VIDEO GAMES, HISTORY AND MUSEUMS
Chair: Amber L. Cushing (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Vít Šisler (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic) Attentat 1942: Designing a Serious Game on Contemporary History
Lissa Holloway-Attaway (University of Skövde, Sweden) + Rebecca Rouse (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, USA) Playing with Postdigital Heritage: Designing Mixed Reality Media Games for New Engagements with The Past
Tanja Korhonen (Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, Finland) + Pauliina Kinanen (Finnish Museums Association) From Stories to Games – Development of Virtual Reality Games for Museums Kadja Manninen (National Museum of Finland) Enlivening History with Virtual Reality – Case Study: National Museum of Finland
15:45-16:15 BREAK
16:15-17:45 VIDEO GAMES MADE IN ASIA. CULTURAL HERITAGE AND GAME DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES
Chair: Suvi Sillanpää (Helinä Rautavaara Museum)
Gregory P. Grieve (University of North Carolina, USA) Escaping Sangri-La: Difference and Disjunctures in Nepali Game Development
Christopher Helland (Dalhousie University, Canada) Gaming Doujin Style: Examining the Cultural Dimensions of Indie Game Development in Japan
Kerstin Radde-Antweiler (University of Bremen, Germany) How innocent is Cultural Heritage? Indie Games in the Philippines between Information and Propaganda
Xenia Zeiler (University of Helsinki, Finland) Gaming Cultural Heritage: Upcoming Indian Indie Games
18:30 DINNER FOR SPEAKERS
Day 2 (Monday 7 May, 10:00-17:30)
VENUE University of Helsinki, Consistorium Hall
10:00 KEYNOTE Padmini Ray Murray (Srishti Institute Bangalore, India) Recasting the Goddess: Whose Stories? Whose Heritage?
10:30-12:00 APPROACHES AND EXPLORATIONS IN VIDEO GAMES AND MUSEUMS
Chair: Suzie E. Thomas (University of Helsinki)
Catherine Beavis (Deakin University, Australia) + Joanne O’Mara (Deakin University, Australia) + Roberta Thompson (Griffith University, Australia) (skype presentation) ‘These were actually people like you’: History, Imagination and Digital Games in the Museum
Angeliki Symeonidi (University College London, UK) From Dog Brain Specimen to “Brainy”, the Evil Game Boss: Exploring Curation, Representation and Agency in Museum Visitors’ Game Designs
Erja Salo (The Finnish Museum of Photography) Darkroom Mansion and Arvaa kuka? (Guess who) – Two play(ful) Approaches to the Collection of The Finnish Museum of Photography
Lauri Kemppinen + Kim Krappala An Adventure in Iron Age Finland – a Minecraft Modification Based on Archaeological Record
12:00-13:30 LUNCH BREAK
13:30-15:30 VIRTUAL REALITY, MIXED REALITY, AUGMENTED REALITY, AND MUSEUMS
Chair: Xenia Zeiler (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Suvi Sillanpää (Helinä Rautavaara Museum) + Emmi Huhtaniemi (Helinä Rautavaara Museum) + Somdatta Deb Participatory Approach to producing Educational Digital Tools in an Ethnographic Museum – Case Durga Puja VR
Tanya Krzywinska (Falmouth University, UK) + Jenny R. Lee (Cornwall Museums Partnership, UK) On the Design of Collaborative Mixed-Reality Experiences for GLAM Spaces: The Case of the Augmented Telegrapher for Porthcurno Museum
Amber L. Cushing (University College Dublin, Ireland) The Role of Contextualising Content in learning via AR Mobile Walking Tour Apps: Reflections from the Walk1916 Project
Seppo Helle (University of Turku, Finland) Augmented Reality in the Context of Cultural Heritage and Education
Deborah Elizabeth Cohen (Cognition Ignition, Raspberry Wood Productions, USA) Design Practices for Creating Digital Educational Museum Collections
15:30-16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00-17:30 ROUNDTABLE PANEL
From Juvenile Entertainment into a Historical Artifact: Game Museum Lineages
Chair: Veli-Matti Karhulahti (University of Turku, Media Studies, Finland)
Discussants: Sarah Brin (IT University of Copenhagen, Digital Design, Denmark)
Ellinoora Havaste (University of Turku, Brahea Centre, Finland)
Johannes Koski (University of Turku, Cultural Production and Landscape Studies, Finland)
Solip Park (Aalto University, Nordic Visual Studies and Art Education, Finland)