UC Links is thrilled to host Eddie Rivero (Teachers College, Columbia University) and Cecilia Rubino (Eugene Lang College, The New School) for a UC Links Virtual Office Hours focused on play!
Breaking through the Screen:
From Virtual World-Building to Embodied Play
Date: Thursday, April 16, 2026
Time: 11:30 AM PDT / 2:30 PM EDT
Zoom Link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/my/uclinks
Together, Eddie and Cecilia draw on their experiences co-designing after-school programs in New York City to explore the inexorably connected game structures that support both the virtual worlds that students are profoundly engaged in and also break through the screen using theater and dramatic play.
Join us to learn how interactive play activities can support youth in expanding and embodying their imaginations as they envision alternative, sustainable, and more just social futures. Through this transdisciplinary conversation, we aim to deepen how we think about play and its possibilities for environmental learning, teacher and student development, and more reciprocal relationships with human and more-than-human worlds.
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Eddie Rivero is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, in the Bilingual/Bicultural Education program. His research examines the cultural practices, digital literacies, and sociopolitical meaning-making that young people develop through their everyday media and play activities, with a particular emphasis on emergent bilingual youth. Dr. Rivero’s work explores both how technologies, including artificial intelligence, can be used to surveil and constrain student learning as well as how young people can leverage these same technologies to co-dream and co-construct alternative and more liberatory social futures.
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Cecilia Rubino is an Associate Professor of Theater at Lang College/The New School whose work and teaching has focused on — theater as a medium for engaged dialogue; transformative arts education, and theater & environmental advocacy. Professor Rubino has served as the Director of the Lang College Theater Program, which was named one of the top Civic Engagement and Social Justice theater programs in the US by American Theater Magazine, and directs the Lang Arts in Context Program. She also coordinates the ‘I Have a Dream’ Theater & Education Program.
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