Kim Holflod
Why are Cultural Game Jams important?

Aarhus Cultural Hub @ Aarhus

Abstract

Kim explains how CGJ for and through culture can be an important and fundamental tool to explore culture and use games to transform and shape cultural heritage in a new sector, such as game design.

Speaker bio

Kim Holflod is a Senior Associate Professor of Play and Playful Pedagogy at University College Copenhagen and an educational design researcher at The Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. He holds a PhD in Playful Learning in Higher Education and researches experimental, collaborative, and playful practices and communities across educational institutions, disciplines, professions, and sectors, drawing on perspectives from play theory and design, higher education pedagogy, speculative futures, and educational technologies. He serves on the Steering Group of the Centre for Higher Education Futures (CHEF) and is a Programme Lead at the Centre for Better Childhoods.