NESTA Hot Topics: Serious Games
Event Info
Description
The first event in our Hot Topics series explores how games have the power to change the world. Hot Topics are a newseries of NESTA events driven by ideas and technologies. They aim to introduce the technological tools that will change how we do things in the next few years and bring together the best of business, academia, start-ups and investors.
Inspirational
Figures
The inspiration for this first event on Serious Games comes from Jane
McGonigal’s TED talk on Serious Games (see video below), and David Helgason’s
declaration ofthe 'Year of Gamification'.
The rise of Serious
Games
The event will examine how games and games technologies are being brought into
'serious' areas, as well as how serious tasks are being made more game-like. More specifically, our
contention is that there are three specific ways that games can be adopted by
other sectors:
- by generating positive side effects from gameplay;
- by creating technology that can be reused;
- and by increasing engagement with a problem or activity.
Speakers
- Stian Westlake, Chair, Executive Director Policy and Research, NESTA
- Mary Matthews, Blitz Games Studios
- Alex Fleetwood, Hide and Seek
Find out more
Visit our Serious Games resource
page to
see interesting and innovative examples, links and videos that relate to the
topics we will discuss at the Serious Games event. We would also love to hear
from you if you have any suggestions or ideas for relevant case studies, talks
or articles we may have missed.
Catch up post-event
If you aren’t able to attend, be sure to follow the live updates on Twitter,
and you can then read the post-event report and watch full the video.
