History and Design: The Past and Potential of Video Games in Interdisciplinary Scholarship

Session Description

Videogames, like other cultural artifacts, cannot be understood from any single disciplinary perspective. A designer may see an opportunity to create a tool that influences the world around them, an historian may see an artifact that embodies the forces that shaped it, and players inevitably make their own meanings. In this crosstalk, we will consider how historical and design approaches both complement and challenge each other, and what we can learn about multi-/interdisciplinary scholarship as we shift our own perspectives.

Speakers: Prof. Alan Galey and Prof. Velian Pandeliev