Serious game design as research-creation to address sexual and gender-based violence
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Authors
Sadati, S. M. Hani
Mitchell, Claudia
Issue Date
2021-10-07
Type
Article
Language
en_US
Keywords
Action Research , Arts-Based Methods , Methods in Qualitative Inquiry , Case Study , Participatory Action Research
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Abstract
Research-creation is a growing practice in humanities that tries to balance the pace of socio-cultural inquiries with modern media advancements and qualitative knowledge construction methods. It refers to various conjunctions of “research” and “creation” (i.e., research-for-creation; research-from-creation; creative presentations of research; and creation-as-research) around an artistic component. Drawing from fieldwork with instructors in four agricultural colleges in rural Ethiopia, this article explores how a participatory arts-based serious game design process is explicable within the context of research-creation. This work’s change-oriented agenda led to developing Mela, a serious game, to educate and empower instructors in agriculture colleges to tackle sexual and gender-based violence issues in their institutions. Here, we articulate Mela’s design process, its artistic composition, and how we understand it from different angles of research-creation practices. We also offer our introspective accounts during and after the design stages, referencing culture and gender as critical concepts. Serious games are pedagogical products that are designed for a meaningful learning experience. This work deepens the understanding of how research-creation practice can benefit the serious game design field by ensuring the attention to both process and production.
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Citation
Sadati, S. M. H., & Mitchell, C. (2021). Serious Game Design as Research-Creation to Address Sexual and Gender-Based Violence. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 20. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211046130
Publisher
International Journal of Qualitative Methods