by Alex | Jan 6, 2019 | CreativeCulture
During a recent trip to Malaysia as part of Creative Culture project, myself and colleague Oliver Wood designed and delivered a rapid prototyping workshop for the creation of educational games. Sometimes it can be challenging to explain the benefits of game design...
by Alex | Sep 3, 2018 | Crowd4Roads
There is a number of evidence that suggests that games and gamified applications can drive collective action in the real world. How individuals interact with problem-solving within a gamified environment that can solve problems in the real world is such a hybrid...
by Alex | May 24, 2018 | CreativeCulture
On 22nd May 2018, the Creative Culture team went to the rural village in Baram, Sarawak, called Long Lamai. The journey took us 5 hours to reach from Kuching International Airport to Long Lamai. We flew from Kuching to Miri airport, then Miri to Marudi. After that, we...
by Alex | Sep 19, 2017 | Beaconing
The Beaconing project has just completed its first review (the first 18-month Reporting period) with success. Thanks to the reviewers and the EU Project Officer, we passed with no corrections; all deliverables excepted. We are highly inspired by the feedback from the...
by Alex | Aug 24, 2017 | CreativeCulture
Since the launch of GameChangers in 2015, the initiative has produced two spin-out projects- Mobile GameChangers and CreativeCulture funded by HEFCE and Newton respectively. CreativeCulture was kicked off in February 2017, where the...
by Alex | Apr 30, 2017 | Beaconing
We managed to meet our milestone for the end of April and presented what we have developed so far at the ELSE Conference 2017 as one of the 1/2 day workshops. It was pretty intense with quite a variety of prototypes to show- from the integrated gamified lesson path...
by Alex | Feb 24, 2017 | CreativeCulture
DMLL has recently received funding from NEWTON UK-SEA (AHRC + MoHE) programme to expand the impact of the GameChangers initiative into South-East Asia. The project is called CreativeCulture, which stands for ‘Creative and participatory transcultural...
by Alex | Feb 20, 2017 | Beaconing
Yes this post is a bit late as it is actually a year, 1 month and 20 days old today! The project has since produced some early mock-ups that were demonstrated at the last GALA conference in Utrecht, and has also been shortlisted for the Best Education Project...
by Alex | May 7, 2016 | What is Your Story?
Understanding abstract concepts can be a bit tricky if they are not relatable. Personalising narratives around a topic or a subject contextualised the relevance and the applicability of the topic. Identifying with the potential of visual learning to help foster a more...
by Alex | Feb 7, 2016 | Crowd4Roads
I mentioned this project on one of my previous posts. The Crowd4Roads (C4Rs) project is co-funded by the Eu Commission Horizon 2020 programme (€1.5 million, 7 partners, 3 years), and was finally kicked off in Ancona, Italy on 3-4 February 2016. The project will be...
