Game Changer Chicago (GCC) Design Lab is an initiative of the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health (Ci3) at the University of Chicago. Co-founded by Drs. Patrick Jagoda (Assistant Professor of English) and Melissa Gilliam (Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Pediatrics), the GCC Design Lab created workshops in which high school aged youth – recruited primarily from underserved schools on Chicago’s South Side – collaborated with faculty, staff and fellows (undergraduate and graduate students in the humanities and arts) on digital stories, transmedia games and new media art projects. The GCC Design Lab is both a maker-space and a research lab. As a maker-space, we have a strong commitment to developing youth-led products, running game design workshops, and creating games for national and transnational dissemination. As a research lab, we promoted continued work at the intersection of art, narrative, health, and technology with an eye to critical thinking and healthy social and emotional outcomes.
Executive Vice President and Provost
The Ohio State University
Melissa L. Gilliam is the chief academic officer of The Ohio State University. Previously she served as vice provost, the Ellen H. Block Distinguished Service Professor of Health Justice, and professor of obstetrics and gynecology and pediatrics at the University of Chicago. At the University of...
Professor of English and Cinema and Media Studies; Co-founder, Game Changer Chicago Design Lab and Transmedia Story Lab; Faculty Director, Weston Game Lab
University of Chicago
Patrick Jagoda specializes in media theory, game studies and design, science studies, and twentieth and twenty-first century American literature and culture. He is the co-founder of the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab and the Transmedia Story Lab, faculty director of the Weston Game Lab and the...
