Wednesday, 9 October 2019 at 4:00 pm – Wednesday, 9 October 2019 at 5:00 pm

Make Board Games Great Again

Organised by The Manchester Games Studies Network (MGSN)

Date: Wednesday 9th October 2019

Time: 4pm – 5pm

Location: Room 302, Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester, M15 6LL

Tickets: Free – Just turn up!

Matteo Menapace is officially VIDEOgames designer in residence at the V&A in London. Practically he makes cooperative boardgames about cheerful topics like food politics, memory loss and honeybee capitalism. In our age of extreme individualism, tech addiction and epidemic loneliness, in which the incarnation of Mister Monopoly is literally the US president, Matteo teaches people how to make games that encourage collaboration and experimentation, and help us tackle tough questions. In this seminar Matteo discusses his work, and his experiences of being VIDEOgames designer in residence at the V&A.

The Manchester Games Studies Network (MGSN), established at Manchester Metropolitan University
in 2016, 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 Education, English, Games Design, History, Media Studies, Psychology, Science
Communication, and Sociology. Find out more here: https://www.manchestergamestudies.org/