Yolaç offers a practical teaching toolkit to help game design instructors implement an inclusive and transformative feminist pedagogy.
Ahu Yolaç
Ahu Yolaç is a multidisciplinary game studies researcher, designer, and gamer. She holds a PhD in arts education with a focus on game design from UIUC, an MSc in industrial design from METU, and a BFA in interior architecture and environmental design from Bilkent University. She is interested in games as transdisciplinary, critical, and informal learning spaces. Ahu conducts design-based research projects on intentional design practices to enhance critical thinking outcomes for gameplay and the design process. She also explores and develops teaching methods to evoke these critical thinking outcomes through design. She works as an Assistant Professor of Game Design at Lawrence Technological University.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey