The Skins Workshops on Aboriginal Storytelling and Video Game Design, a project led by Design and Computation Arts associate professor Jason Lewis, in collaboration with the Kahnawake Survival School, recently won the $2,500 J.W. McConnell Family Foundation Award, given by the Changemakers Initiative: Inspiring Approaches to First Nations, Métis and Inuit Learning.
Designed by Lewis's AbTeC (Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace) research team, Skins combines instruction in video game design with immersion into Aboriginal stories and storytelling techniques. Skins specifically addresses the unique world view of Native youth and participants learn how to "translate" their stories, legends and oral traditions into a new medium: the video game.
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