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ARCHITECTURE AND VIDEOGAMES: NARRATIVES AND SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS
ΟΑ0202, AUDIOVISUAL ART,
Elective at semester(s) 6, 8, ECTS: 3

Teaching Assistant: Giorgos Loukakis

 

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The main aim of the studio is to explore the spatial characteristics of video games. Video games are a powerful technological tool that nowadays affects as well as expresses the socio-cultural tendencies of the society from which they evolve. The objective of this course is to study and analyze the communication language they use, as this is instructed by contemporary technologies or the corresponding accompanying narratives.

SUBJECT

The course will focus on the relationship between video games and architecture. Students will be offered the chance to get their hands on the notions of digital experience, cyberspace and interactivity and afterwards they will be asked to research and comment on the spatial characteristics that can potentially be used as useful design tools. 

INDICATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY

SALEN, Katie; ZIMMERMAN, Eric. Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals. The MIT Press, 2003.

WOLF, Mark. The Medium of the Video Game. University of Texas Press, 2002.

MAYRA, Frans. “An introduction to games studies: games in culture”, SAGE, 2008.

KRESS,Gunther,  VAN LEEUWEN,Theo. Multimodal Discourse, 1st ed., Bloomsbury USA, 2001.

JUUL, Jesper. Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds. The MIT Press, 2011.

NITSCHE, Michael. Video Game Spaces: Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds. The MIT Press, 2008.

P.WALZ, Steffen. Toward a Ludic Architecture: The Space of Play and Games. ETCPress, 2010.