On 27 & 28 September the SAC-team, hosted a research seminar focusing on how games and play
can help to improve relationships between children and their incarcerated fathers in maximum-
security prisons.
On these two days researchers and practitioners from social practice, design research, criminology
and narratology, was invited to share experiences and to discuss the challenges and potentials of
design research interventions.

Among the speakers were:

Testimonies from Collaborators: Elisabeth Toft Rasmussen, project leader of the Child Responsible
Programme from the Danish Prison and probation Service.  Henrik Lykke Jørgensen, Prison officer,
Enner Mark Prison, DK

Game Changers: How Persuasive Game Design can contribute to Healthcare
Associate Professor Valentijn Visch, Persuasive Game Design Unite, Delft University of Technology,
NL

Design against Crime in UK Prisons
Professor Adam Thorpe and Professor Lorraine Gamman, the Design Against Crime Research
Centre, Central Saint Martin School of Art & Design, London, UK

What is Social Design? When small Changes are good enough
Thomas Markussen, Department of Design & Communication, University of Southern Denmark

Restoring broken Narratives through Games
Eva Knutz, Department of Design & Communication, University of Southern Denmark

Stories of Change and Identities in the Making
Nanna Koch Hansen, Department of Design & Communication, University of Southern Denmark

What are Small Stories, why are they important to study – and how can small stories be
analysed?
Professor Michael Bamberg, Department of Psychology, Clark University, USA

An Anecdote of the Attempt to Measure intended Effects
Tau Lenskjold, Department of Design & Communication University of Southern Denmark

The Challenges & Dilemmas of Evaluation in Criminal Justice Settings
Dr Caroline Lanskey, Lecturer in Applied Criminology, Institute of Criminology, University of
Cambridge, UK