Rikke Toft Nørgård
What is the importance of the EPIC-WE project?

Aarhus University @ Aarhus

Abstract

Rikke shares her perspectives and insights as coordinator and lead of the EPIC-WE project, and how the project’s results might create value across sectors and for the future of culture and games.

Speaker bio

Rikke Toft Nørgård is Associate Professor at The Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark, where she also serves as Steering group member of Centre for Higher Education Futures (CHEF). She is elected Board member of the national Danish Network for Educational Development in Higher Education (DUN). She holds a PhD in digital games with the dissertation "Gameplay Corporeality: the corporeal-locomotive dimension in gameplay activity and experience” (2013). Nørgård is the coordinator and lead of the Horizon Europe project EPIC-WE: Empowered Participation through Ideating Cultural Worlds and Environments: youth imagining, creating and exchanging cultural values and heritage through game-making (2023–26).