Put more formally, LA Game Space is a nonprofit, interdisciplinary center for art, design, and research.

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Their LA Game Space will be a nonprofit center for videogame art, design, and research.

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The University of the West of England (UWE) was also considered, by RAE, to have "high levels of world-leading and internationally excellent research" in Biomedical Sciences, Art and Design and Communication, Cultural and Media Studies.

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One member of the alliance is Professor Lorraine Gamman, director of the Design Against Crime Research Centre at Central St Martins School of Art and Design.

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In 1996, he returned to MIT, serving as the director of research at the Media Lab and taught courses on art and design.

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Chris has won the Design for Disability award, at the Royal College of Art and the Help the Aged 'Design for Our Future Selves' award, through the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre at the Royal College of Art.

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