Mick Chesterman

My current passion is teaching and researching diverse forms of digital and physical making. This involves digital game making and building arcade machines, physical computing and anything to do with the web and media making. Whenever possible I’ll bring in elements of play, social justice and thinking in systems.

My PhD in Education (ESRI) at Manchester Met is focused on game making with families. Game Design Patterns have jumped out of my research as an area of interest. Firstly leveraging the broad recognition of game patterns and secondly tapping the value design patterns as a way into learning coding.

My background in teaching is broad, involving over 25 years of community based education in languages, community development, media and technology. Since the very early days of the Web, I have been an advocate of using technology to help the aims of community and campaign groups. Much of my work has been about creating accessible learning resources for tech tools culminating in the coordination the FLOSS Manuals project, promoting Free Manuals for Free Software. After doing a Computing MSc and PGCE, I currently work part time at Manchester Met as a tutor in the school of Childhood, Youth and Education Studies.