Orleans House Gallery Gaming Hub: GAME ON!

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[ ID ] f981bac1-f5ec-431f-baf1-2e5ad7b77f28

[ Submitter's Name ] Kate Kennedy [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Orleans House Gallery [ Submitter's Twitter ] @Orleanshg

[ Space ] digital [ Secondary Space ] youth

[ Format ] hands-on

Description

Using our new Orleans House Gallery Gaming Hub platform visitors (young people, adults, families) will design an avatar or gaming element using a range of hands on drawing/crafting techniques, taking inspiration from the collection and architecture Orleans House Gallery. The drawing will then be scanned and uploaded to our platform and visitors can then drop it into their own game, either on a laptop or computer or on their own device during the workshop or at home. Please check out our current platform (please note it is still at a very rough stage, currently named 'Play your Place' from a previous project by Soda design, but we aim to have it finished and active in mid August- http://playyourplace.org.uk/). Visitors will be able to play, build upon and share their game and others games after the workshop.

Agenda

This is the workshop plan for the event…

1. Visitors come into the workshop space, where we will have gallery artists and members of our Art Forum (young people aged 11-17) on hand to help them through each stage of the workshop.
2. Visitors choose an artwork, character or feature from our gallery collection, history or building to take inspiration from.
3. Visitors use different drawing and crafting techniques to create a 2d artwork on A4 paper.
4. Visitors use a scanner to scan and upload their image with their image onto a computer.
5. The image is then uploaded onto our platform which will be accessible for everyone to use.
6. Visitors can then use on of the laptops in the space or their own device to build, play and share their own game. Visitors can then take home their artwork and information on accessing and building their own game.

   Participants

We will have 3 different sections to our workshop....

• Designing avatar/element
• Uploading their image
• Building their game

If we only have 3 participants we will allow them to take their time at each stage, and they can go back to the designing section and design multiple game elements.

If we have 15 or 25 or more we will have the designing stage as a holding area, allowing and encouraging people to take their time in this section. We will then call people up in small groups to scan and upload their images. We would then have a small team of artists/young people to explain the gaming stage and to point them towards tutorials and 'How to s' on our hub- so they can work more independently.

Outcome

• as a way to advertise and promote 'Orleans House Gallery Gaming Hub' and the young gamers who co- created and designed the platform as part of their Arts Award
• to get our visitors excited about mixing together practical and digital art skills, and to show them that game building can be simple process, especially as they can continue adding images, editing games and designing games after they leave Mozfest.
• to showcase our gallery collection in an exciting way and to new groups of visitors, especially whilst the gallery is closed during our 'Transforming Orleans House' project.
• to encourage other Arts Award Centres (we are currently a AA Good Practice Centre) to use digital technology with their young people

[ArtsAward]

Thank you Kate, this looks super! Will be in touch @ArtsAward

[ArtsAward]

Amended Description

Using our new OHG Gaming Hub visitors (young people, adults, and families) will be able to design an avatar or gaming element using a range of hands on drawing/crafting techniques, taking inspiration from the people, collection and architecture of Orleans House Gallery. The artwork will then be scanned and uploaded to our platform and visitors can then drop it into their own game, either on a laptop or computer or on their own device during the workshop or at home. Please check out our gaming hub http://ohggaminghub.co.uk to see and play on some of the existing games- please note the hub is still under construction but will be finished in time for Mozfest. Visitors will be able to play, build upon and share their game and others games after the workshop.