MAI editors illuminate the need for more feminist voices to rejuvenate the pedagogy in the popular yet male-dominated games design.
Josefin Westborg
Josefin Westborg is one of the world’s leading experts in edu-larps. She has a background in game design and pedagogy. She is part of the Transformative Play Initiative at Uppsala University in the Department of Game Design, where she has been part of creating the world’s first masters in analogue role-playing games. Throughout her career, she has run her own edu-larp company, met thousands of students of all ages, and run and designed larps for them. Josefin has also been a game design teacher at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg. She is passionate about designing for interaction, storytelling and learning. You will probably find her at the dance studio doing ballroom dancing when she is not involved with games.
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