A MAZE. Games and Playful Media Festival Johannesburg
In September Ben, Regina and I headed up to Joburg for the now-annual A MAZE. festival. A shoot off from the original Berlin festival, founder Thorsten Storno has done a [...]
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Between 10&5 Creative Women Conference
Creative Women One of the most intimidating things I’ve ever had to do in my life was waiting for me as soon as I returned from Vancouver – presenting at the 10&5 [...]
The 21st International Symposium of Electronic Arts
On the 12th of August I boarded a flight to Vancouver for the 21st international symposium on electronic arts (ISEA) hosted by Simon Frasier University, where I would be [...]
I’m back! A roundup of Århus and everywhere else
Over a year ago I had this dream of spending some time abroad to dig deep into the methodology I’ve been using in my research. After I attended the Participatory Design [...]
Making Chapters: How to plan your thesis according to me (and avoid panic attacks while you’re at it).
For the past year I have been grappling with the tedious process of planning out my thesis. Unlike the optional European multiple-article-format for submitting a PhD thesis, [...]
UNITE Europe 2015: On Unity, Game culture and Girls in Games
On the 22nd of June I took the bus from Aarhus to Copenhagen, from where I boarded a plane to Amsterdam (!) for the Unite Europe 2015 conference. The conference ticket was [...]
“Visuality, culture, methods: Exploring the aesthetics of possibilities” course with Sarah Pink, Annette Markham and Anne Marit Waade
My stay in Denmark has been full of pleasant surpises: a couple weeks ago I ran into one of the kindest humans I’ve met at Aarhus thusfar – Anne Marit Waade [...]
Berlin: Droid Con & Meeting with A MAZE founder, Thorsten Storno
On the 4th of June I undertook a 12 hour busride across Denmark and Germany to Berlin to visit Danielle, attend Droid Con, and see Thorsten Storno (the director of games and [...]
The Creative Coast Festival – S.A.D cat goes to Karlshamn, Sweden
On the 28th of May, one week after the Shayla VR Jam in Copenhagen, we made the trek to Karlshamn in Sweden to go demo our newly developed game, “S.A.D cat”, at [...]
Shayla Games VR jam Copenhagen: Team “Is that a horse?” prevails…
On the weekend of the 22nd of May, 2 weeks into my stay at at Aarhus, Ben convinced me to attend a gamejam hosted by a friend that he had met at A MAZE – Julie Heyde. [...]
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