We're building an incredible volunteer force with the best collaborators ever!
LA Game Space is a non-profit lab for game development, research, and culture.
During the day, we will offer a learning lab where youth engage in collaborative game creation by making games about their passions, nurtured by a volunteer force of practitioners and researchers.
In the evenings, we will present advanced workshops, lecture series, gallery exhibitions, performances, and special events.
ABOUT THE LEARNING LAB
By supporting collaborations between practioners and researchers, we have a strong regional advantage as the game industry and game art scene both are thriving in Los Angeles. Our mission is to connect game-makers and regional youth who are motivated to engage participatory learning through game development. We will accomplish this through workshops, after-school mentor programs, guest lectures, as well as the exhibition and promotion of participants' game designs to a broader regional, national, and international community. Important aspects of this programming include:
- participatory learning through collaborative game making
- connecting youth with expert practitioners and researchers
- preparing youth for careers in creative and technical disciplines
- transforming consumers into creators and learning into making
- documenting and providing open access to all programming via a community website
- providing volunteer-based workshops, mentor opportunities, guest lectures, and exhibitions to the public
Through passionate making, game-makers learn to realize their own imaginings as new participatory play-spaces.