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    Confoederatio Ludens

    Swiss History of Games, Play and Game Design 1968-2000

    Institut für Designforschung (IDE)

    Confoederatio Ludens, chludens.ch

    SNF Sinergia Research Project with ZHdK, UniBern, UniLausanne and HKB on Swiss videogame & videogame design history

    CH LUDENS looks at a vibrant game design and development scene in the pre-Internet age. For decades, digital games were programmed in Switzerland in niches, but also with commercial success. They bear witness to many sub-scenes and a society changing through digitization.

    The CONFOEDERATIO LUDENS team explores this largely ignored games industry from 1968 to 2000 and takes a step towards the broader preservation of a highly ephemeral and disappearing cultural heritage.

     

    Details

    • Research Focus
      • FRGD Game Design
    • Applicant
      • Eugen Pfister (Hochschule der Künste Bern, Institute of Design Research)
      • Tobias Hodel (Universität Bern, Walter Benjamin Kolleg, Digital Humanities)
      • Mela Kocher (FRGD)
      • Yannick Rochat (Université de Lausanne, Section Sciences du Langage et de l'Informa)
    • Team
      • René Bauer (FRGD)
      • Hiloko Kato (FRGD)
      • David Krummenacher (FRGD)
      • Beat Suter (FRGD)
      • Larissa Wild (FRGD)
      • Noemi Chow (FRKV)
      • Arno Görgen (Hochschule der Künste Bern)
      • Addrich Mauch (Universität Bern)
    • Cooperations
      • Jaroslav Svelch, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic , Faculty of Social Sciences
      • Tobias Winnerling, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften
      • Melanie Fritsch, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Philosophische Fakultät, Institut für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft
    • Resources
      • Project website
    • Duration

      01.02.2023 – 31.01.2027

    • Financing
      • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds SNF, Sinergia (01.02.2023 – 31.01.2027)
    • Research Approaches
      • Basic research
      • Artistic-scientific research
    • Disciplines

      Design

    • Keywords

      Game Design, Arcade, Local Game Design, Digital Archive, Video Game History, Video Game, Play, Digitalisierung, Digitalization, Design History, Game Design History

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      • Projektblog