Recap: The Critical Play Lab Returns to Terminal City Tabletop Convention
For the second year in a row, the UBC Critical Play Lab (CPL) returned to Terminal City Tabletop Convention with a strong mix of play-based programming, community engagement, and a little bit of free swag. “Indigenous Game Design & Decolonial Play: Lessons from the Arctic Winter Games” CPL Saturday programming included a well-attended roundtable […]
Field Trip Recap: Critical Play Lab Takes on asses.masses
On Sunday, November 16th, Critical Play Lab Director Biz Nijdam and two Critical Play Fellows set out on an epic, joy-filled adventure to Vancouver Island for Impulse Theatre’s production of asses.masses by Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim. After the panicked search of multiple inboxes for the e-tickets and a little too much caffeine, the team […]
Mark Ellis
Mark (he/him) is a writer of digital learning content, a tabletop game designer, and founder of the Vancouver Playtest group where 900+ members give feedback on tabletop game prototypes.
Video Games and the Pornography of Death (Nov. 26 @ 12 PM + Lunch)
The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series and Critical Play Lab present: Video Games and the Pornography of Death with Dr. Amanda Phillips WHEN & WHERE Wednesday, November 26th, 12-1pm Buchanan Tower, Room 323 Please RSVP below in advance A light lunch will be served at 1:00 PM Amanda […]
League Play Book Launch Party (Nov. 19 @ 4 PM)
League Play Book Launch Party 📅 Wednesday 19 November 4-6 pm 📍 Audain Art Centre, 3rd floor lounge 6398 University Blvd., University of British Columbia Please join contributors to celebrate the launch of the League Play Book! League Play Book documents the recently completed League Nanaimo exhibition and the previous dozen years of the League project, and includes new short […]
Bryn Shaffer
Bryn Shaffer is a PhD student with the UBC School of Information. Her research focuses on game studies, human-computer interaction, labour, and citizen science. Her dissertation involves building a citizen science video game for collaborative annotation of astronomy data, and investigating the connections between learning, research, and digital play. In her spare time she makes indie horror games.
Alexander Ross
I am a critical communications scholar, with a focus on media theory and the political economy of communication. My research is interdisciplinary and focuses on how communication systems and infrastructures impact the development of new media industries and cultural production.
Kairn Zhou
Hello! I like growing food, collecting metal, and compiling lists. Currently, I am a third year undergraduate student in Global Resource Systems at UBC, specializing in sustainable agriculture and Scandinavia.
Nora Perry
Nora Perry (she/her) is a third year PhD student and sessional lecturer in the Language and Literacy Education Department at the University of British Columbia. She also holds an MA from the same department in which her thesis centred on gender roles and video games for young children.
Siyun Pan
Siyun Pan is a PhD student in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research explores popular culture, fandom, and media in contemporary China, with a particular focus on fan productions and the urban mediascape.