The Project
Board games have been a cornerstone of social life for thousands of years, so deeply woven into the fabric of human communities that they became traditions passed down through generations.
These games, often traveling from culture to culture, offer fascinating insights into intercultural contacts, migration, inclusion, and the layering of cultures over time. The teaching modules we designed harness these rich stories to explore human history from an intercultural and interdisciplinary perspective. Not only do they reveal the cultural dynamics of ancient games, but they also tap into the mathematical and logical challenges they pose.
Best of all, the modules are playful, providing teachers with engaging tools to bring gamified lessons into the classroom.
The PAST project team
Partners
Сдружение на преподавателите по история в България
Bulgarian Association of History Teachers
People
VIE - Valorizzazione Innovazione Empowerment srl
Tommaso Piccinno
Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology and counselor
Michele Masini
Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology and counselor
Bulgarian History Teachers’ Association
Bistra Stoimenova
Experienced teacher and president at EuroClio.
Associaçao Ludus
Tiago Hirth
Ph.D.
in History and Philosophy of Science
Jorge Nuno Silva
Professor of Mathematics and expert of games.
Carla Cardoso
Ph.D. in
History and Philosophy of Science.
Tiago Robalo
Science Communication expert and Physicist (CH)
Modules' designer, historians and researchers
Marco Tibaldini
Post-Doc researcher, Historian, module designer
Fatih Parlak
Head of the department of English, Kappadocia University
Lisa Rougetet
Ph.D., Mathematician at the University of Brest
Elias Stouraitis
Post-Doc researcher and teacher of History
Ulrich Schädler
Emeritus professor, University of Fribourg (CH)
Walter Crist
Post-Doc researcher at the University of Leiden
Associated Partners
Clio '92 is the Italian Association of History Teachers and is a community of teachers interested in discussions, reseaches and testing activities in the field of History Didactics
Locus Ludi is a project of the University of Fribourg (CH) dedicated to the study of ancient games and board games. It also aims to promote the approach to a didactics of history in a playful form for schools, museums and libraries.
Colégio Atlântico, Seixal (Portugal), is a private school with multiple past Erasmus+ colaborations and an active mathematics life.
Escola Básica Integrada de Ribeira Grande, São Miguel (Portugal), is a primary school of the autonomous region of the Açores archipelago.
COST Action, an international and interdisciplinary network of scholars and stakeholders from across academia, industry, and heritage institutions to inspire methodologies and applications on the use of games.
Istituto Bianchi - Virginio
High school in Cuneo Art High School, Music High School, High School for surveyors
Istituto Comprensivo Carbonera
Primary and Middle school in Carbonara (Treviso)
Toy Museum of Vilnius
Play and toys as cultural heritage