Designing Digital Play for Well Being at Games for Change 2023: Panel and Workshop
Panel: Designing Digital Play for Well-Being at Games for Change 2023
July 18, 2023 at 1:45pm
The Times Center | Main Stage
How do we define well-being in a digital world and what does it mean to thrive? How can developers incorporate diverse perspectives into game design to benefit players from different backgrounds around the world? How can we balance responsible design with business pressures? How can we empower game designers to embed designing for well-being and digital thriving into their work?
In this session at the Games for Change Festival, Michael Preston will explore these questions with Jeffrey Burrell (Riot Games), Carolina Giuga (The LEGO Group), and Kevin Bedau (Scratch Foundation) while diving into the challenges and opportunities for creating digital spaces that contribute to the thriving of both kids and adults.
Speakers will highlight two initiatives seeking to provide answers, resources, and communities of practice to help answer these challenging questions: Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children (RITEC) and Digital Thriving.
WORKSHOP: Building Digital Play for Well-being
July 19, 2023 at 5:00pm
Microsoft Center | Music Box
Please join the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, the LEGO Group, and the Fair Play Alliance for an interactive workshop. Participants will take part in a 1.5 hour playful and interactive session to generate new ideas for designing better digital play experiences for well-being. Attendees will envision and construct a physical representation of a digital space that allows children and adults to thrive – drawing from the Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children (RITEC) and Digital Thriving initiatives – and work in groups to explore case studies of how to integrate concepts of well-being and thriving into design.
Participants will leave with concrete ideas on ways that they can incorporate these concepts into their work and a connection to communities of practice looking to learn from each other to advance this work.
