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24 February 2022 @ 15:00 – 17:00 CET & 18:00 - 19:00 CET
Hosted by Zurich University of the Arts
In ‘play’ lies great power – the power to motivate, to irritate, to generate laughter and to transfer knowledge. The past two years have not been fun. We have sat in front of screens for hours, tried to have genuine conversations as opposed
to abrupt exchanges on WhatsApp or other social media platforms. However, as artists and thinkers this is time which has pushed many of us to come up with creative solutions which enable meaningful collaboration, learning interrogation and
experimentation.
As part of ELIA Future Arts series we presented ‘Playgrounds in Education’. Over two days, we invited participants to experience the innovative, surprising and mischievous elements of play for yourself. We delved into the application of gamification
in teaching, toy with roleplay, and share the theories and philosophies behind high-end game design.
Let’s (re)play to learn, and (re)learn to play.
DAY 1, 23 Feb
Playground I: Configurate and Play, 15:00 – 17:00 CET
How can we show up playfully in an education context? What are the basics of game design and gamification? How can they be applied to teaching and learning scenarios? What methodologies can we take from e-learning and ludic/playful didactics?
This session explored, with inputs, discussions and mini-workshops, how to experience play in an educational setting.
DAY 2, 24 Feb
Playground II: Challenge and Reflect, 15:00 – 17:00 CET
In this session, we rediscovered and replayed technology becoming experts in our own educational playgrounds. Using gamification we playfully examined feedback methods for learning and teaching scenarios, while exploring the theory in a mini-workshop.
Playground III: BATTLE for Identities, 18:00 – 19:00 CET
Panel discussion (battle) with Mary Bunch, Christopher Salter and Margarete Jahrmann
Mary Bunch is a Canada Research Chair, Assistant Professor In Cinema and Media Arts, and core member of Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA) at York University, in Toronto Canada. Dr. Bunch’s teaching and research interests include
virtual world pedagogies, relational ethics, interdisciplinary and collaborative critical disability, feminist, queer and decolonial theory, and media arts philosophies. She works at the intersection of the political imagination and
its visual / sensory expressions. She has published articles in the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies; Feminist Theory; Culture, Theory and Critique; Studies in Social Justice, and the Canadian Journal of Human Rights.
Christopher Salter
Christopher Salter as will be a new Professor of Immersive Arts and Director of the Immersive Arts Space at Zurich University of the Arts from May 2022. Salter is an artist, professor of computer arts at Concordia University in Montreal,
co-director of the Hexagram Network for Research-Creation in Arts, Culture and Technology, and a Member at the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«. He studied philosophy and economics and received his PhD in theater from Stanford
University, where he also taught and conducted research at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.
He is the author of »Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance« (MIT Press, 2010), »Alien Agency: Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making« (MIT Press, 2015) and »Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape our Everyday Lives« (MIT Press,
2022).
Margarete Jahrmann
Margarete Jahrmann, is a ludic game artist and media theorist, head of the new department for Experimental Game Cultures at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In her
collaborative and interdisciplinary artistic practise, she explores the ludic and the human condition by creating virtual, performative as well as installative “Ludic” works, dealing with emerging technologies and the human condition
and core motivation around the contemporary global challenges. She was awarded the Media Arts price of the City of Vienna in 2020, and among other rewards the distinction in interactive arts at ars electronica 2003 and transmediale
award 2004.
Selection of recent and upcoming shows: 2022 14th Bienal de la Habana / Experience 3: A Return to What Lies Ahead, 2022 CIVA artists recommended/avatar seance, 2021 Hybrid Play Festival Festpielhaus Hellerau, Dresden,
2021 Pink Noise Brain Jam, Vienna Artweek, 2021 CIVA Contemporary immersive Arts Festival Vienna/ AAA ThP Multiuser Online Game, 2020 Parallel Vienna, The image is taking, the artist is measured, the AI Eigenface
is created – spatial Game…, 2019 Art|Sci Center Los Angeles (CNSI), the artist as agent of change, Augmented Reality Installation, 2018 Amaze Playful media festival Berlin, Neuroflow Game Konsole& panel.
ELIA Future Arts is an experimental interactive online series exploring the potential of technological developments in immersive and interactive arts education.
Brought to you by ELIA Supporting Members (HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, Zurich University of the Arts, TU Dublin, College of Arts and Tourism, Amsterdam University of the Arts, and Willem de Kooning Academy), this series of online interactive
sessions will explore the limitless possibilities of teaching and learning, play, experience, aesthetics and interactivity in the virtual space.
ELIA Future Arts invites you to experience new possibilities, co-create in a virtual environment and discover unchartered digital territories. Together we will uncover new teaching methods, create new digital spaces for collaboration,
and discuss the potential of VR and new technologies in arts education.
Is your arts institution interested in playing a crucial role in leading-edge European projects? Become an ELIA Supporting Member. Raise your institution’s international profile. Discuss how your students and faculty could get involved,
with ELIA Executive Director, Maria Hansen. Email info@elia-artschools.org for further information.
Supporting Members
Is your arts institution interested in playing a crucial role in leading-edge European projects? Become an ELIA Supporting Member. Raise your institution’s international profile. Discuss how your students and faculty could get involved, with ELIA
Executive Director, Maria Hansen. Email info@elia-artschools.org for further information.
Mary Bunch 
Christopher Salter
Margarete Jahrmann
