ImGame Project: A Comprehensive Theory of Immersive Aesthetics and Innovation in Serious Gaming

Benefits Of Imgame: Creativity And Immersiveness In Artistic Education

Researchers have broadly demonstrated the importance of creativity in contemporary education (Laal et al., 2014; de Cassia Nakano Primi et al., 2018; Belén Calavia et al., 2021), and yet the interdisciplinary ideas of culture and art in the 21st century that can stimulate the creative thinking have not been used in serious gaming to date. The ImGame project is focused on the modern aesthetics of immersion and aims to educate users about its conceptual issues as well as initiate their creative fantasy. The idea of the project is related to the fact that the educational curricula for the general public (with an exclusion of some specific schools of art and culture) do not teach the historical and interdisciplinary ideas of cultural thought inherited by the art of the 21st century from previous eras. Consequently, this cultural matrix with its rich background is not being used to stimulate deep thought and facilitate students to generate new concepts. Not as much the cultural facts, but creativity itself is actually the central benefit of artistic and cultural education for young people and other enthusiasts because it can help open fresh horizons of thought and lead to innovative approaches that are important for the modern society to solve challenges, such as pandemic, poverty, war and global ecological problems. Such challenges require intellectual capacity that we need to enhance, and cultural education is one of the ways to stimulate it.