Playful Engagement With The Past
HIST3812 is a studio-based engagement with the past. We’re building games and other playful approaches to communicating the past, examining the past, and challenging the past…. now and into the future.
Office: PA 406
Email:
shawn.graham@carleton.ca
Do I Have To Be Techy?
In a word, no! You do have to be willing to be comfortable with experimentation, with things that break, and with…
Assessment
Everything we do here builds on what came before. Some things carry formal grades because that’s the system we live in.…
Tools
There are a lot of resources out there to help us. I try to suggest free and/or open source tools whenever possible.…
Discord
We have a Discord server that you are welcome to use to coordinate any group work, to share materials, to plot and to…
Schedule
The course is divided into three parts, with three interstitial weeks where we build things. We meet Mondays and…
Epoiesen
Epoiesen: A Journal for Creative Engagement in History and Archaeology ἐποίησεν (epoiesen)- made - is a journal for…
A Creative Approach
This is a class about collaborative & playful approaches to the past - not lectures.
Difficult Conversations
There are ethical issues to consider.
'Failure' is a Virtue
Things will break. The emphasis therefore is on process.
