The Fondazione Mondo Digitale will take the Phyrtual Innovation Gym to the Rome Cinecittà Studios for RomeVideoGameLab 2019, the Italian Festival of Applied Games that from today to May 12 will host a wide range of activities.
The event, which is free, will be held at the renowned Rome Cinecittà Studios, which made Italian cinema famous around the globe. The event includes a wide range of labs dedicated to cutting-edge technology and the potential of the videogames for the cultural heritage sector, knowledge, education and didactic activities.
After the great success of the first edition with thousands of visitors, this year, the initiative, which is produced and promoted by the Istituto Luce-Cinecittà in collaboration with QAcademy and Aesvi, will host even more activities – an unmissable occasion for students, families, enthusiasts and workers.
The Fondazione Mondo Digitale Corner at the Rome District VIII Stand:
- Hi-tech Summer Camps – once again our summer camps will unite a wide range of games, sports and educational activities with creativity and technology at the Phyrtual Innovation Gym with English lessons, innovative labs in our digital on creative marketing applied to three fields: Digital Fashion Week, Green Design Week and Art&Tech Week.
- Media Art – with artist Lino Strangis and “Partiture Spaziali. Altre musiche per altri mondi” (Spatial Compositions. Other Works for Other Worlds), an intermedia installation that embodies a range of composite forms and techniques, ranging from digital video-art to virtual reality, 3D printing, multimedia performance and experimental electronic music improvisation.
- Holomakers – an FMD project funded by the European Commission in which artist Lino Strangis holds a STEAM course through the use of holograms.
- Wearable Technology - with designers Eliana Guzmann and Irene Caretti. Open source connectivity clothes, bio-elements, prototypes that interact with the audience as if they were synapses and dresses that function as access points that can be controlled by mobile devices to activate the coloured leds sewn into the dresses.
- Fab Lab Innovation Gym Didactic Kits: Emosilla, Emotional Robots, Laser Books and much more.
- ACCORD Serious Game – experimental interactive educational videogames presented at Smarted and conceived as part of Project ACCORD (Attain Cultural integration through COnflict Resolution skill Development). Funded by the European Commission to help teachers address conflicts and face cultural diversity in class through the creation, evaluation and upscaling of an integrated on-line pedagogic method that unites conceptual material through MOOCs and serious games for practical and experiential learning. The on-line educational game for teachers and coaches will soon be launched in Italy, Spain, Germany and Belgium.
Here’s to applied games for playing, learning and improving our professional skills. Learn more about the activities and initiatives organized by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale.
