a world of playfulness
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A World of Playfulness
Mathias Poulsen@mathiaspoulsen
CounterPlaywww.counterplay.org
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My guiding question has always been:
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How do we help people to become empowered citizens, able to act & influence the world?
“The world faces global
challenges, which require
global solutions”
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http://www.globaleducationfirst.org/
For years, games & learning was my primary approach to this.
…in a way, I came away disappointed.
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Games tend to shift focus away from what it’s all about:
PEOPLE!#NextLibraryPlay
That’s why I founded the CounterPlay Festival & NGO
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We build on the claim that playfulness is important everywhere & for all
people!
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Why playfulness
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I think playful people might be better
equipped to live in this world
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"it's wrong to think of playing as the interruption of ordinary life. Consider instead playing as the underlying, always there, continuum of experience”
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What charactizes playful people?
CuriosityCourage
UnpredictabilityEmpathy
Imagination
Resilience
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“To play fully & imaginatively is to step sideways into another reality, between the
cracks of ordinary life”
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“playful behaviour and playful thought can generate radically new approaches to challenges set by the physical and social environment”
(Bateson & Martin)
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Playful people does not seek order or
equilibrium, but embrace the constant
movement
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“Playfulness means taking over a world to
see it through the lens of play, to make it shake and laugh and crack
because we play with it” (Sicart, 2014)
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What does this mean – for libraries & all of us??
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The most important thing is not more games or (amazing!) playgrounds or…
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Internally:
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Could you embrace playfulness as a strategy in the transformation of
libraries?
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Externally:
Could you create libraries that to an even greater extent help people become more playful?
Let’s talk!@mathiaspoulsen
Have an AMAZING Next conference – and don’t forget to
play!