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GDC + VRDC 2019 Session Scheduler
View, browse and sort the ever-growing list of GDC sessions by pass type, track, format, and more! With Session Scheduler, create an account to build your own GDC schedule and access it anywhere, including on the GDC app, once live.
If you've registered for GDC, you can use the same login credentials. Adding a session to your schedule does not guarantee you a seat. Sessions do fill up, so please arrive early to sessions that you would like to attend.
Mikael Jakobsson studies connections between sociocultural systems and gaming practices through embedded qualitative investigations, interaction criticism, and design exploration. His education was shaped by the the Scandinavian participatory design movement in the early 1990s, which has instilled him with a sensitivity to issues of design as political acts, and the importance of recognizing power differentials between stakeholders in the design process.
He is currently studying colonialist themes in contemporary board games, which includes efforts to strengthen the voices of the subaltern by the creation of counter colonialist games.
He is the research coordinator for the MIT Game Lab where he also teaches classes in game studies, game design, and playful and social design exploration. He has over twenty years of experience in teaching, course development, research project management, as well as advising master’s and PhD students.