Institute of Play

Working across a diverse community of players, the Institute of Play leverages games and play as critical contexts for learning, innovation, and change in the 21st century. We bring non-traditional audiences into innovative spaces of production and learning through partnerships with the game industry, academia, government, science, technology, and the arts.

Our goals are to:
Embrace game design as an agent of provocation, education, and change

Build new domains of knowledge connected to gaming, digital media and learning

Develop innovative curricula around gaming literacies and other 21st century skills

Create experiences bridging digital and non-digital learning environments

Foster new models of collaboration between students, educators, and professional game designers

Provide a space for the experimentation and exchange of ideas across creative, technology, and education sectors