Gaming Your Way to Higher Consciousness

This episode’s guest, Jessica Creane, has reimagined and dare I say, redefined the experience of gaming that challenges all the concepts we’ve come to know about the win/lose nature of play. Starting with an infinite play tabletop game that explores the way humans are all ways playing in this world in a never ending way, Jessica is now creating, designing and hosting immersive gaming experiences around the world that enable participants to enjoy the journey of getting know who they are and how they show up in these play full moments. Have a listen to this very special conversation that will certainly stretch the limits of your imagination. 

 

About Our Guest:  

Jessica is a maker of play/s. She is a designer of both games (play) and theater (plays), often combining them into immersive, interactive experiences (play/s). Her work has been presented by ArsNova (NYC), La Jolla Playhouse (San Diego), Caveat (NYC), HERE Arts (NYC), IndieCade (L.A.), Tanween Creativity Festival (Ithra, Saudia Arabia), UPENN's Environmental Storytelling and Virtual Reality Summit (Philadelphia), and SXSW (Austin), as well as working on game design projects for YouTube/Google, Five Story House, and Superbien.  

  

As the founder and Chief Creative Officer of IKantKoan Play/s LLC, Jessica leads a team of multi-hyphenate, medium-agnostic artists and technologists in the creation of collaborate, playful immersive and interactive experiences that level up our lives. She believes that the things we take most seriously in the life are the things we ought to be most playful about. She believes that creativity and play bring out the best in us and help us to contend with the complex challenges of the world. Her work reflects this philosophy.  

  

Jessica's work has been recognized as Best of Immersive Theater by No Proscenium, Immersive Nation, NextWave, and Broad Street Review. Her immersive theater productions Chaos Theory and Know Thyself have run a combined 18 months in NYC. She has published seven tabletop games to date and her games have won accolades, including best new name, at Fastaval (Copenhagen), Hawaiicon (Honolulu), and BostonFIG (Boston). Her work has been featured by The New York Times, Imaginary Worlds, and on KQED San Fransisco, among others.  

  

Jessica is a published author of critical game theory with the journal Game Environments (‘Let the Magic Circle Bleed: Bridging the Gap Between Games and Reality’) as well as a co-author of the upcoming 2023 book release of 'An Existential Toolkit for Climate Educators', contributing a chapter on 'Teaching Climate Change Resilience Through Play'. She is a Professor of Game Design at Drexel University, a 2022 Arctic Circle Artist-in-Residence, an environmentally-focused game designer with The National Parks Service, and a founding member of The Rachael Carson Center Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators.  

  

Jessica has been a keynote and/or featured speaker at TEDx (‘Gamifying Chaos: Embracing Uncertainty Through Play’), Beyond Opera (Helsinki), The World Economic Forum DQ Symposium on Xr+ (NYC), and Games for Change (NYC). Her playable theater piece Fair Trade, designed in collaboration with Yannick Trapman-O’Brien, will be presented at the 2023 La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Festival next month. 

 

Guest Info:  

Website: https://ikantkoan.com/ 

Instagram: www.instagram.com/ikantkoan 

Facebook: www.facebook.com/IKantKoan 

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ikantkoan 

Email: jessica@ikantkoan.com 

 

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