Program

All events, if not indicated differently in the program, will take place in PAIDIA Living Lab of Play* (in NOKIA ARENA - 3rd floor-, Kansikatu 3, Tampere).

*For a map of the area, please check the PDF or the Venue page

** For the map of the LINNA Building (Guided Play & Paper Jam Workshops)

PROGRAM (PDF)

09:00 – 09:40 - Coffee and Registration

09:40 – 10:00 - Conference Opening

10:00 – 11:00 - Keynote presentation by Outi Laiti: From Intangible to Tangible: Exploring Saami Game Design in Diehtoárran

11:00 – 11:20 ------ Break------

SESSION 1: Board games & Maths

Chair: Mattia Thibault

11:20 – 11:40  - Jorge Nuno Silva - Lewis Carroll's Game of Logic

11:40 – 12:00 - Carla Cardoso - Probability and games of dice with Christiaan Huygens (17th century)

12:00 – 12:20 - Lisa Rougetet and Tiago Hirth - “Un jeu de combinaison dénommé LE Tricolor": a boardgame invented by Maurice Kraitchik 

12:20 – 13:20 ------  Lunch Break ------ 

SESSION 2: Roman Period

Chair: Summer Courts

13:20 – 13:40 Gabriella Carbone - Can a misunderstanding cause a death? Relationships between game languages and reality

13:40 – 14:00 Marco Tibaldini - Board games and Roman law
14:00 – 14:20 Ulrich Schädler - Graffiti game boards and the passion of the Christ: a pavement in Jerusalem

14:20 – 14:30  ------ Coffee Break------

SESSION 3: Board games in India

Chair: Jaakko Stenros

14:30 – 14:50 - Ashwini Gawli - Geographical Distribution of Etched Board gamed in Maharashtra & their Extended Documentation from other states in India [ONLINE]

14:50 – 15:10 - Jacob Schmidt-Madsen - Discovering Dadu: A Ludemic Enigma from South Asia

15:10 – 15:30 - Gyaneshwar R. Singh - Boardgames Made of Precious Materials for Indian Royalty [ONLINE]

15:30 – 15:50 ------ Coffee Break------

15:10 – 15:30 - Marco Tibaldini and Ilaria Truzzi - “Funded Projects Roundtable”

SOCIAL PROGRAMME:

Soccer Game 

When: between 20:30 and 21:30

Where: Kauppi Sport Centre 

What: a friendly game of soccer

SESSION 4: Rules Design

Chair: Ville Kankainen

09:00 – 09:20 - Samuel Pizelo - Games Before Modernity: Historicizing Game Form with the Model Paradigm

09:20 – 09:40 - Niall Moody - Making it up as we go along: A game designed by its players as they play

09:40 – 10:00 - David King - Playing with Memory

10:00 – 10:10 ------ Break------

SESSION 5: Materiality & Immateriality

Chair: Jaakko Stenros

10:10 – 10:30 Elke Rogersdotter - An Attempt at Reciprocal Materialization of Games and Gaming in Indus Society, Along With Dominant Notions Thereof"

10:30 – 10:50 Walter Crist - The Fleeting Materiality of Board Games: Games in Prehistory and Beyond

10:50 –  11:20 ------ Break------

11:20 – 12:20 - Keynote presentation by Niklas Nylund: 160 years of Finnish games – a national perspective on the history of board games and their players

12:20 – 13:20 ------  Lunch Break ------ 

SESSION 6: Modernity & Early Contemporaneity

Chair: Ilaria Truzzi

13:20 – 13:40 - Tianyue Lei - Continuity and Discontinuity in Ming-Qing History: Case Studies of Shengguantu 陞官圖 Collected in Pan-European Libraries

13:40 – 14:00 - Selahattin Karagöz - The Unionist on the Board - Playing Turkey’s Past and The Reconstruction of Cultural Memory in Ittihat, İhtilal and Inkılap

14:00 – 14:20 - Céline Zaepffel - From Players to Travellers

14:20 – 14:30 ------- Coffee Break------

SESSION 7: Contemporaneity

Chair: Lisa Rougetet

14:30 – 14:50 - Katharina Rosenbichler - You´ll have explosions of laughter” or: how to bomb the magic circle.

14:50 – 15:10 - Annie Xiang, Vincent Berry - Is the Meeple Modern? Evolution of Materiality in Board Games (1960-2000)

15:10 – 15:30 - Jonas Richter - A Chronology of RPGs Published in German

15:30 – 15:40 ------- Coffee Break------

INDUSTRIAL PANEL

Chair: Ville Kankainen

15:40 – 16:40 - Panelists:

• Jouni Jussila, DIZED
• Max Wikström, Agemonia
• Petter Ilander, Tactic Games
• Jenni Jalava, Martinex and Peliko

COFFEE AND CHAT

16:40 – 17:20 - Time to Catch up and make new friends!

SOCIAL PROGRAMME:

Game Night! (BRING YOUR LOCAL GAMES!!)

When: between 20:00 and 00:00 

Where: PAIDIA Living lab of play

What: we will be playing board games in groups, old and new

SESSION 8: Game Design & Making

Chair: David King

09:00-09:20 - Linas Gabrielaitis - Playing with 3D printers as worldbuilders: the immaterial structures of procedural generation

09:20-09:40 - Vinciane Zabban, Aurore Deramond and Benjamin Barbier - From Tabletopia to protozones : trade fairs as a turning point in the im/material and social processes of creating boardgames.

09:40-10:00 - Laijana Braun - Hybrid interactions in "Alice Is Missing: A Silent Roleplaying Game

10:00-10:10 --------Break--------

SESSION 9: Premodern Japan

Chair: Ilaria Truzzi

10:10-10:30 - Dan Sherer - Flat Dice and Crooked Men: On the Nature and View of Cheating in Gambling Games in Premodern Japan

10:30-10:50 - Isabel Colón de Carvajal - Streaming a board game session on Twitch.Tv: Crossing the interfaces involved to facilitate game learning [ONLINE]

10:50-11:20 --------Break--------

11:20 – 12:20 - Keynote presentation by Melissa Rogerson: Has technology ruined boardgames?

12:20-13:20 -------- Lunch Break --------

13.20-15.20 - PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

15:20-15:40 ---------Coffee Break--------

SESSION 10: Game Design

Chair: Riikka Aurava

15:40-16:00 - H. S. Dharmendra- Scope of Materials and Processes in Designing Boardgames [ONLINE]

16:00-16:20 - Gabrielle Trépanier-Jobin and Laura Iseut Lafrance St-Martin - Thinking Outside the Box to Design Greener Games Across and Beyond the Board [ONLINE]

16:20-16:30 ---------Coffee Break--------

SESSION 11: Game & Genders

Chair: Marco Tibaldini

16:30-16:50 - Tom Apperley - Playboy Magazine, Board Games and Gender Asymmetries in Gaming Cultures

16:50-17:10 - Ryan Scoats - It's really difficult as a woman to walk into a place which is all men”: Tabletop board game culture as a male space

SOCIAL PROGRAMME:

Conference Dinner

When: starts at 19:30
Where: Restaurant KOSKI

What: A moment of conviviality and exploration of Finnish cuisine

SESSION 12: Board Games Today

Chair: Riikka Aurava

09:00-09:20 Jean-Emmanuel Barbier - "Learning the hobby, how to become a hardcore boardgamer?"

09:20-09:40 Michael Freudenthal - "A Taste of Boardgamers: tensions in appropriating a ludic culture"

09:40-10:00 Rainforest Scully-Blaker - "Getting the Dice Rolling: An Investigation into the Player Perception of Gateway Boardgames"

10:00-10:10 ---------Break---------

SESSION 13: Draughts

Chair: Jacob Schmidt-Madsen

10:10-10:30 Liuwe Westra - "The Bable of Draughts"

10:30-10:50 Marten Walinga – “Association between Alquerque and draughts variants”

10:50-11:20  ---------Break---------

SESSION 14: Digitalization 1

Chair: Ilaria Truzzi

11:20-11:40 Mauricio Castro Valdez - "Reclaiming the Excluded Voices of the Peruvian Armed Conflict: Digitizing Shining Path: Struggle for Peru"

11:40-12:00 Casey O'Donnell - "Non-digital Games are Digital Too…"

12:00-12:20 Mattia Thibault - "Digital spectres: hauntology and augmented analogue play"

-------- Lunch Break --------

SESSION 15: Digitalization 2

Chair: Walter Crist

13:20-13:40 Ville Kankainen - "Immaterial Culture Accentuating the Material Tabletop Game Experiences"

13:40-14:00 Topias Mattinen - "From Analog to Digital: Examining Ownership, Creativity, and Monetization in Gaming"

14:00-14:20 Samuel Francblu - "material games, analog mechanisms, and digital know-how"

14:20-14:30 ---------Coffee Break---------

SESSION 16: Board Game in Art

Chair: Jean-Emmanuel Barbier

14:30-14:50 Alina Potemska - "Game as a form of art"

14:50-15:10 Alex de Voogt - "Materiality in the University Classroom: the case of board games"

15:10-15:30 Closing and reveal of next year venue

SOCIAL PROGRAMME:

Visit at the Finnish Game Museum

When:  starting from 16:30 (we have guided tours, so be punctual)
Where: at the  Museum Centre Vapriikki
What: A guided visit to the museum