Presentations, lectures, workshops, events

Courses (1):

2020 (January-March) Course: TIE-40306 Gamification: A Walkthrough of How Games Are Shaping Our Lives, with Mila Bujić, Tampere University, Finland.

Keynotes (3):

2020 (November 21st) “Gamification and Cultural Impact” Keynote at the Game of Cities: Culture, Participation, Democracy organized by UrbCulturalPlanning, Gdansk (online).

2019 (September 25-25^th) ““Urban Toyfication” Keynote lecture at the I Colóquio de Pesquisas em” I Colóquio de Pesquisas em Semiótica Visual e Multimodalidade (CPSM), João Pessoa, Brazil.

2019 (July 5^th) “ReClaim – critical design and punk gamification in the urban environment” Keynote lecture Gamification & Serious Game Symposium — GSGS’19, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Conferences and Lectures (31):

2020 (November 13th) “Cinema, gioco, intertestualità” (with Gianmarco Giuliana), lecture in the Course “Cinema e comunicazione audiovisiva” by Bruno Surace, University of Turin, Italy.

2020 (November 10th) “Gioco e Spazialità” at the Symposium CIRCe Linee di Ricerca sulla Comunicazione; online.

2020 (October 31st) “La Città in Gioco -. Riappropriarsi e Rigenerare gli spazi urbani”, Starurday Morning Live, Collegio Einaudi, Turin, Italy.

2020 (October 29th) “Jurassic Tampere & Urban Toyification” at the Gamification and Serious Games Symposium GSGS20, online conference.

2020 (October 8th) “From Critical Design to Critical Semiotics”, in the advanced graduate seminar批判性符号学：从符号到意识形态 (Critical Semiotics: From Sign to Ideology) by Prof Massimo Leone, Shanghai University.

2020 (October 3rd) “Tekhla – The Production of Space in a Transurban city”, With Oğuz “Oz” Buruk and Seda Suman Buruk, at Tirana Architecture Weeks; Online.

2020 (July 23rd) “Transurbanismo y Movilidad”, Next Imaginar el Postpresente, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello ans Fundacion Telefonica Mobustar, Venezuela; Online conference.

2020 (April) Imagine a playful city Board game based expert interviews”, Board Game Studies Colloquium XXIII, Paris, France [Cancelled due to the COVID 19 pandemic]

2020 (June 2nd ) “ROOK Urban Play and Data Visualization”, with Artur Vasconcelos Cordeiro and Martijn de Waal at DiGRA 2020, Tampere, Finland [Cancelled due to the COVID 19 pandemic]

2020 (April 24^th) Digital ekphrasis & augmented faces in the transurban with Oğuz “Oz” Buruk, Deep Facets, Meetings on Meaning 2019-2020, Turin University, Italy.

2020 (April 2nd) “Strategies of Urban Toyification” Lighting Session of GamiFIN2020 online conference.

2020 (January 28^th) Read by the City: Digital Transurbanism and Facial Recognition, with Oğuz “Oz” Buruk, at the “Transhuman Visages Artificial Faces in Arts, Science, and Society” international conference, Warsaw, Poland.

2019 (Septeber 27^th-October 2^nd) “Patrimonio culturale nelle città dei videogiochi: nuove forme di turismo e vecchi stereotipi nella serie Assassin’s Creed” Istituto Cultural Italo Brasileiro – ICIB, São Paulo, Brazil.

2019 (September 28^th) “Mídia Arquitetura e Gamificação Urbana”, with Rodrigo Felicissmo at the Centro de Pesquisa e Formação SESC, São Paulo, Brazil.

2019 (September 14^th) “Thinking with objects. A semiotic approach to critical and speculative design” XIV World Congress of Semiotics, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2019 (September 10^th) “Enunciating city spaces: performativity and urban semiotics” XIV World Congress of Semiotics, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2019 (September 5th) ““Ciudades ficticias” at the XI Congreso Internacional Chileno de ” XI Congreso Internacional Chileno de Semiótica, Santiago, Chile.

2019 (September 4^th) ““El derecho (de escribir) la ciudad” at the XI Congreso Internacional” XI Congreso Internacional Chileno de Semiótica, Santiago, Chile.

2019 (June 17^th) “Was it worth it? Experiences on the proposal writing process by a successful MSCA-IF Fellow” Tampere Univiesity’s Marie Sklodowska Curie Action Individual Fellowship Master Class.

2019 (May 7-10^th) “Urban Boardgames: from representation to urban planning” Board Games Studies Colloquium, Bologna, Italy.

2019 (April 15-16^th) “Critical Urban Play” with Lobna Hassan, at Urban Play, the 15th Game Research Lab Spring Seminar, Tampere University, Finland.

2019 (April 8-10^th) “Punk Gamification”, at GamiFIN 2019, Levi, Finland.

2019 (March 21^st) “Unweaving the urban fabric, perspectives on semiotics of the city” Invited lecture at Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic.

2019 (February 08^th) “Around gamification: play, playfulness and the ludicisation of culture” Invited lecture given at Jonna Koivisto and Juho Hamari’s course Gamification: A Walkthrough of How Games Are Shaping Our Lives (TIE-40306), Tampere University, Finland.

2019 (February 1^st) Organizer (with Dale Leorke) of a workshop dedicated to urban play for the Journalism Course project by Elina Paasonen in collaboration with public broadcaster Yli and the Aamuletti newspaper

2019 (January 31^st) “Urban gamification: the playful reinterpretation of city spaces” Invited lecture given at the seminar Experiential approaches in documenting and mapping the urban, Helsinki University, Finland.

2019 (January 30^th) “Game apologists and the dark side of play” Lecture given at the seminar Complication play, Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies, Jyväskylä, Finland.

2019 (January 10^th) (2019) “Towards a Typology of Urban Gamification” 52^nd HICSS Conference, Wailea, Hawaii.

2018 (November 12^th) “A semiotic approach to urban gamification” Lecture given in the weekly seminars of Prof. Eero Tarasti, Helsinki University, Finland.

2018 (October 24^th) “Re-interpreting cities with play. Urban semiotics and gamification”, Playable Cities Workshop, ArtsIT Conference, Braga, Portugal.

2018 (September 26^th) “Taming play. Experiments and ideologies of gamification form US, EU and China”, International Symposium “Contemporary Arts in China – A Comparative Semiotic Overview”, at Shanghai University, China.