PoRtaL 8 – Speakers

 

meet our

keynote speakers

  


Josefin Westborg

Josefin Westborg

Josefin Westborg (Sweden)

Josefin is a co-founder of Lekreativ / Lajvbyrån agency and one of the world’s leading educational game designers and teaches game design at Chalmers University of Technology.

She likes to design games that are interactive, storytelling, pedagogical and feminist.


Mike Pohjola

Mike Pohjola

Mike Pohjola (Finland)

Mike is a game designer and author of multiple books about role-playings. He is interested in immersive games, transmedia content and how games can change the world.

Also, he started two companies that won two International Emmy Awards.


Simon Svensson

Simon Svensson

Simon Svensson (Sweden)

Simon is a co-founder of Atropos Studio, interested primarily in aspects related to the construction of game worlds and the use of games in human psychology research, with a view to better understanding oneself and others.

He designed and directed games such as The Forbidden History, Lotka-Volterra, the Androids trilogy and Libertines, among others.