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The Arcade Our Way project lasted a year and three months, and it wrapped up recently with shrieks and giggles! Girls originally in grade seven, now in grade eight, at The Linden School in Toronto, teamed up with Angelique Mannella and undergraduate students at Concordia University, and McGill University, to create the video game Ghost Hotel. Ghost Hotel is about a girl named Violet, a mortal who is compulsively late for her job at a …
Arcade Our Way is a game-design based learning project where a multi-tiered, all female team, consisting of grade seven students, undergrads and doctoral level/professionals, are working together to create a counter-narrative game about alternative leadership models. Within this team, the main decisions makers and idea-generators are the grade seven girls from The Linden School in Toronto. So far we know that the game will be mission-based, and will take place in a Ghost Hotel! Currently …
Decode Global’s Angelique Mannella, Layla, Lila, Marysa and myself are working on a project with grade 7 students at The Linden School in Toronto. Our plan is to co-create a game about gender and leadership. We have turned to the girls at The Linden School because they are experts for their age in relation to the subject of leadership and gender, the school having a feminist mandate underlying all that they do. This is a …
This is a project that I am working on with Lila Weintraub, Layla Belmahi, and Angelique Mannella. We are travelling to The Linden School (http://lindenschool.ca/) in Toronto, to work with the grade sevens to develop a video game about gender and leadership. We will be doing a dry run of our workshops on Tuesday evening in the resource center at Hexagram (EV. 11.705). We’ll be serving beer and snacks, in exchange for being our guinea …
University of the Streets Café will host the public discussion – Normalizing cyberviolence in video games: Why is it ok? at theAtwater library. This discussion is connected to Shanly Dixon and Sofia Guerrieri’s Cyberbullying project, funded by the Status of Women Canada. All are welcome!
Address: Atwater LIbrary and Computer Centre, 1200 Atwater Ave. (corner Tupper, near the Atwater metro).
http://www.concordia.ca/about/community/initiatives/streets-cafe.html