Mattia Thibault (0000-0002-3593-0350)

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Dr Mattia Thibault is an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Translation in the Creative Industries at Tampere University. He is a member of the Language Unit and collaborates with the Gamification Group, the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies and the Flagship project UNITE - Forest-Human-Machine Interplay. His work revolves around the synergies between media and communication, playfulness and the built environment (real and digital). His research projects “LudoSpace” and “ReClaim” (EU MSCA-IF 793835) focused on urban gamification and bottom-up and punk ways to use playfulness for good. In 2017 he earned a PhD in Semiotics and Media at Turin University, where he subsequently worked as research fellow in 2018. He has been visiting researcher at Tartu University (Estonia), The Strong Museum of Play (Rochester, NY, US), Helsinki University (Finland), Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Nederland) and Waag | Technology and Society (Nederland). He often hides tiny rubber dinosaurs in public spaces.

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Tampere University: Tampere, FI

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Tampere University: Tampere, FI

Education and qualifications (7)

Università degli Studi di Torino: Turin, IT

Helsinki University: Helsinki, FI

The Strong - Museum of Play: Rochester, New York, US

Tartu Ülikool: Tartu, Tartumaa, EE

Università degli Studi di Torino: Torino, Piedmont, IT

Université Paris Diderot: Paris, FR

Università degli Studi di Torino: Turin, IT

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The Meaning of Play. A systematic approach to playfulness games in Western culture

The Meaning of Toys. Creating and conveying knowledge through playful artifacts

Role and Position of Play and Games in an Intertexual net or semiotic eco-system

Play and Semiosphere: games as a genetic engineering of sense

MA second semester

MA second semester

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An educational leap of faith

Designing locative human-forest interactions through playful design workshops

Exploring Interreal Translation

From Gamification to the Metaverse and beyond. Metaphors, myths, and ideologies

From Gamitifation to the Metaverse and beyond Metaphors, myths, and ideologies

Knee deep in the hoopla: rebuilding our cities beyond rocks and walls

Metropoesis: semiotics, fictional cities and speculative urban design

Spatial Augmented Reality (SAR) for Accessible and Engaging Spaces of Urban Heritage

The Feast with the Statue: Creative, playful and innovative approaches to controversial cultural heritage

Virtual Cockroaches? Envisioning Dimensions of VToys and Related Play Experiences

“I like everything about it” - Perceived educational value of a digital gaming experience with Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: Discovery Tour

Transhuman Communication: Human Augmentation Technologies through Co-Speculation Workshops

Design Kitsch

Identity in New Realities: Future Trajectories for Forming Identities and Social Lives in Extended Realities

Beyond the Blueprint: Exploring Virtual Reality and Speculative Design in Architectural Pedagogy

Focus At Play: Exploring Gamification through A Case Study Of Narrative-Based Focus Apps

Special Issue: Gamification for Sustainable Development

Editorial: Gamification for Sustainable Development

Envisioning Transhuman Communication Research: Speculative Human Augmentation Technologies and Fictional Abstracts

Making Sense of Reality: A Mapping of Terminology Related to Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, XR and the Metaverse

Ludo Ergo Sum: Play, existentialism and the ludification of culture

Tekhla - The production of space in a transurban city

Towards sylvan games

Urban semiotic analysis

A Typology of Fantastical Cities and Architecture: Categorizing the Urban Imaginary

Blueprints of Tomorrow: Co-Designing Speculative Urban Futures

Crafting Bodies and Auras: Speculative Designs for Transhuman Communication

Who am AI?: Mapping Generative AI Impact and Transformative Potential in Creative Ecosystem

The Wild Probes: Towards a Collection of Hybrid Tools for Situated, Caring & Playful Co-design within the Forest

Designing and Using the Wild Probes Toolkit (v1) to Co-Design From-the-Wild

Fantastical Reality: Designing Virtual Urban Space Through Extended Reality

The Internet of Bananas

"Mirror Dwellers": Social VR, Identity and Internet Culture

Gaio Giulio Cesare Augusto Digitale. Traduzioni e appropriazioni della figura di Augusto nei videogiochi

Introduction to Minitrack on Engaging Governance

Research Topic: Urban Play and the Playable City: A Critical Perspective

Toys, Toying, Toyish: the Semiotics of Objectual Play

Du Flâneur au traceur

Co-designing the Affective City: Speculative Explorations of Affective Place-Based Experiences

The Good, the Bad, and the Divergent in Game-based Learning: Player Experiences of a Serious Game for Climate Change Engagement

Forests in Digital Games - An Ecocritical Framework

Gamified Educational Software for Data Literacy - A Research Through Design Approach to GANDALF

ROOT, Woodland Ideologies in a Fantasy Game

Understanding the Game-based Learning Experience: A Framework of Frictions Between Design and Play

Towards a Semiotic Theory of Transmedia Characters

Gamifying the city

Editorial

Anagenesis: A framework for a gameful, playful and democratic future smart cities

Cocreation and participation for designing sustainable playable cities

Etsijä's Call

Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)