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Kim Flintoff will present
Online Sites for Generative Play
This paper proposes an alternative concept for thinking about engagement in online environments as a form of “generative play”. The notion of “generative play” draws on existing forms of online role-play (MMORPG, Alternate Reality Games and persistent virtual worlds) and combines it with principles of process drama. The result is an emergent modality that reveals itself as a playful engagement that expects significant meaning-making without predetermined or prescribed content.
Using this model as a frame we can consider new approaches to creating educational drama forms which can comfortably draw together varying degrees of online and offline engagement. The frame of “generative play” can also accommodate the development of new performance paradigms that launch us into the world of networked performance.
Intended Audience: Everyone
About the Presenter
Kim Flintoff's current PhD study at Queensland University of Technology is entitled "Drama Teacher as Game Master: developing digital games-based process drama as performance" and reflects his decade long interest in drama, education and technology.
Additionally, Kim is interested in a performative approach to research and has recently authored the content of an ATN online module "Practice-led research in the Arts, Media and Design".
Kim teaches Contemporary Performance and Drama Education at Edith Cowan University. As a co-chair of the IDEA Special Interest Group for Drama and New Media, Kim has shared his ideas and helped motivate a range of investigations into the potential of technology and drama.
