agi09 soapbox slides
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“the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention”Plato, The Republic 360BC
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Play Is Not The Opposite Of Work
The Big Idea
The domain of play is engaging with new ideas, doing interesting stuff, exploring possibilities.
In short, innovation and discovery
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It’s Big Business
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“[the child]...takes his play very seriously, expending a large amount of emotion on it.”Sigmund Freud, Creative Writers and Daydreaming
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“It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.”Michel de Montaigne
Johan Huzinger, Homo Ludens (man the player) 1938
Not A New Idea
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How to play with space...?
Literature...
Television...
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Our playgrounds
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Our cardboard boxes, our washing baskets...
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Image Credits http://www.flickr.com/photos/bfionline/http://www.flickr.com/photos/11527081@N05/http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jastrowhttp://www.slideshare.net/PlaneMad/my-experiments-with-openstreetmap-in-chennai-india-sotm09http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/swine-flu-latest-visualized/
Thank You
Serious (geo) play, or 'why we need to be open to innovate'
Andrew Larcombe
[email protected]: @andrewlhttp://andrewl.net
http://www.netdojo.co.uk
