Nicholas Mizer | (Re)Imagining the World through Play
Channel: Human Stories
Date: 2021-04-26

Dr. Nicholas Mizer from the Resselaer Polytechnic Institute, speaks about the importance of play and its role in imagining new cultural and social worlds.  

Nicholas Mizer’s research sits at the intersection of anthropology, interactive design, phenomenology, and gonzo ethnography. From this position, he investigates questions of how collaborative imagination shapes the human experience of worlds, especially how imagining other worlds together can serve as a way to re-enchant and re-make our own world. He is the author of Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Experience of Imagined Worlds (Palgrave, 2019), chair of Game Studies for the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association, and editor at TheGeekAnthropologist.com, and a lecturer in the Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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