Games to Inspire in Youth Work & Global Development Education | Seminar / Conference
23-24 November 2017 | Cahir castle Tipperary Ireland , Ireland
The conference aims to showcase and nurture the potentialof games to inspire, to motivate and to positively impact on the lives of young people in the context of Youth Work and Development Education.
The first day of this conference will bring together Irish and International Youth Workers, Global Development Educators, Academics, and Games Designers with an interest in the use of Games to Inspire and mobilise young people for social change. There will be a mix of practitioners with experience in the use of Games as well as those new to their use.
The second day will give young people an opportunity to interact with games designers, to try out some social impact games, to design their own games and to explore the art and the science of games.
The conference will look at a broad range of Digital Games, Workshop based Role Play and Simulation Games, Board Games and Virtual Reality.
There will be demonstrations on an Alternate Reality Game to look at the Sustainable Development Goals, A Minecraft based game used to explore community Development and a workshop based Global Justice Game.
The conference is free, the numbers will be limited so book early.
This training activity is funded by: The Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme.
Αναλυτικές πληροφορίες - Δηλώσεις συμμετοχής: salto-youth.net