Maria studies games and storytelling in their different applications within and beyond the digital world. She is a game studies researcher of the Laboratory of New Technologies at the University of Athens where she works on new, playful environments and studies the experience of users with and without disability. Maria is also the curator of GOETHE is GAME project and the co-founder of Athens Plaython . She has been organizing street gaming festivals, playful and inclusive experiences, larps, as well as game design workshops in Athens, that blend playfulness and new technologies in the provision of social innovation and inclusion.