Dear reader,
In this issue, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht presents an inaugural public lecture, Games for Change, international student collaboration, a new edition of HKU's Journal for Fine Art Research and more!
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Inaugural Public Lecture Prof. IJzermans
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On 23 February Prof. Jan IJzermans held his inaugural public lecture and was installed as Professor of Research in Creative Practices at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht.
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New edition Open Access Journal MaHKUScript
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The second issue of MaHKUscript, Journal for Fine Art Research, focuses on the current state of Spatial Practice. What concepts are crucial in defining this field?
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Elizabetta Lazzaro chairs symposium
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HKU Professor Elisabetta Lazzaro (Creative Economy) will chair the symposium "Cultural and Creative Industries in Europe: Maximising the Contribution of Culture towards Social and Economic Development" on March 21 in Brussels. This event focuses on the potential of the cultural and creative industries in Europe for the wider economy.
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DiGRA's Games for Change
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The Dutch DiGRA Chapter (DiGRA.nl) organized a meeting on Games for Change on February 7. Hartmut Koenitz, professor of Interactive Narrative Design at HKU, provided the keynote lecture, Towards Systemic Representations, in which he discussed the importance of interactive narratives for representing our contemporary reality. The meeting was hosted by Utrecht University.
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Succesful International Collaboration
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Imagining Tomorrow is an annual international seminar on future design thinking. Last January, students in multidisciplinary teams researched and visualized dreams of clients from public and private organizations. The event is a collaboration between School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Karlshochschule International University Germany and HKU University of the Arts Utrecht.
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International game jam
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During an intensive four day game jam more then 90 students made game protoypes at the new HKU Games and Interaction school location. Aim of the applied games was to raise impact of consumerbehaviour on foodsecurity in Europe. Several Korean students participated. The winning concepts will be further developed in the coming weeks.
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Creatief Vermogen network awarded with grant
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The Dutch Fund for Cultural Participation and the City of Utrecht have awarded a grant for the period 2017-2020 to the regional network Creatief Vermogen, of which HKU Expertise Centre for Education is a partner. The grant will allow further consolidation of specific didactic approaches, developed by Creatief Vermogen, to art education in primary schools in the Utrecht region.
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To Seminar
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Between 11 March and 21 May BAK organises To Seminar, conceptualized by Henk Slager, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht. This research exhibition on the seminar as a model that offers an alternative for learning and knowledge transfer, offers an exhibition and a series of performative and discursive public events.
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- The Game Jam as a Format for Formal Applied Game Design and Development Education, Micah Hrehovcsik, Harald Warmelink, Marilla Valente in Games and Learning Alliance, Volume 10056 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 257-267 (November 2016)
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- Gamification in Physical Therapy: More Than Using Games. Janssen J, Verschuren O, Renger WJ, Ermers J, Ketelaar M, van Ee R. Pediatr Phys Ther. 2017 Jan;29(1):95-99.
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