Mary Flanagan

Professor Mary Flanagan has been invited as one of 40 cultural leaders from around the world to speak and present work at the next Davos Arts and Culture World Economic Forum annual meeting. The Forum will convene January 2018 in Switzerland. 

Please take a look at the invitees for 2016 and 2017, and the impressive body of work they represent.

Professor Mary Flanagan has been named one of 30 inaugural fellows of the Higher Education Video Game Alliance.  The HEVGA fellows program recognizes senior scholars in the games field who have made significant contributions in design, theory, or research.  Read more about Professor Flanagan and this honor in Dartmouth News 

Tiltfactor Labs opened its doors to the public on Wednesday November 9th, presenting a myriad of game systems and discussing the theories behind them.

Dartmouth's game design and research lab invites the community to visit their space and play games created at Tiltfactor: web games, card games- even room escape games!  Tiltfactor will also debut their two new crowdsourcing projects: Crowded Dungeon and r-kive.  

The event will be from 4:30 to 6:30 PM on Wednesday, November 9th in Room 246, Black Family Visual Arts Center.

Email or call with any questions about the event: [email protected] / 603-646-1007

"A psychologically “embedded” approach to designing games for prosocial causes", by Professors Mary Flanagan and Geoff Kaufman and published in Cyberpsychology, the Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, was covered by Fast Company, Huffington Post and Vocativ. The articles explore the games Awkward Moment and Buffalo: The Name-Dropping Game, created in Professor Flanagan's Tiltfactor Lab, that deal with gender and racial stereotypes.

"The role-playing game RePlay Health uses physical challenges to get players to think about how environmental and economic factors, among others, can affect individual health." Read (and hear) more at NHPR

A Boston Globe article highlighted in Dartmouth Now features the work of Professor Mary Flanagan and her Tiltfactor Laboratory which creates "research-driven games for social impact".

"Monarch", a new board game developed by Professor Mary Flanagan and the Tiltfactor research lab, features sisters maneuvering to become queen.  Read more about this exciting new game (and the Kickstarter campaign still in progress) in this Dartmouth Now article

An excerpt from an article in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine about professor Mary Flanagan, printed in the Nov-Dec 2014 issue:

"First, let’s get something out of the way. Mary Flanagan, Dartmouth’s digital humanities chair and founder of the game design and research lab Tiltfactor, could expound for hours on the history of games and the psychology and design of them, whether it’s Tic-Tac-Toe or Angry Birds, but she is not interested in yet another conversation about violence in video games. 'It’s the first question the media has asked me in my entire career,' she says. 'And I think it’s a little weird.' (For the record, this reporter waited until at least 40 minutes into the interview.) 'I suppose that if games can be used as a tool for good, one could argue that they could also be a tool for the not-so-good,' she adds. 'But I’ll leave that for other folks to spend time on.'"

Read more from the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine here.