Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 4:00 pm – Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 6:00 pm

Games and Probation

Date: Wednesday 30th January 2019

Time: 4pm - 6pm

Location: Room 231, Geoffrey Manton Building

Tickets: Free - Find out more information here.

Produced through workshops with men on license, Probationary: The Game of Life on Licence (2017) explores the lived experience of being on probation. Taking the form of a board game, Probationary takes its players on a journey through the eyes of four playable characters as they navigate the complexities of the probation process.

The game was created by socially engaged artist Hwa Young , in collaboration with men on probation, probation officers, and criminologists. Commissioned and produced by FACT, and supported by Liverpool John Moores University, it has been on tour and played at a diverse range of settings and audiences ranging from the British Criminology Conference and London Design Festival to the Tate Exchange and the Ministry of Justice.

In this session Hwa Young will give a presentation of the design process and the impact that the game has had in the criminal justice system and beyond. This will be followed by an opportunity to play the game and discuss the outcomes of the work and research.

Further information about the project can be found here.

The Manchester Games Studies Network (MGSN), established at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2016 by Sam Illingworth and Paul Wake, is an interdisciplinary research group working on games and play. Our focus is on both analogue and digital games, and the MGSN team brings together academics and practitioners from a range of disciplines, including Computing, Education, English, History, Media Studies, Psychology, Science Communication, and Sociology. Find out more here.