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TODAY’S COMPANION MATERIALS

P L A Y F U L E X P E R I E N C E S

Ingrid Fetell –

• www.aestheticsofjoy.com

Vimeo –

• www.vimeo.com

OlO–

• www.ologame.com

Darius Kazemi –

• https://twitter.com/AmIRiteBot

R E A D I N G S & O T H E R M E D I A

The Oulipo Movement –

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo

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I’VE GOT A SECRET…

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If Youth, throughout all history, had had a champion to stand up for it; to show a doubting world that a child can think; and, possibly, do it practically, you wouldn’t constantly run across folks today who claim that “a child don’t know anything.” A child’s brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing an adult’s act, and figuring out its purport.

- Gadsby, Ernest Vincent Wright

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PLAY is inherently

subversive

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The Inherently Playful Items, events, and experiences

that provoke or afford social, emotional, mental, or physical excellence

The Playful Path An approach of openness,

curiosity, and subversion The Lusory Attitude

Playful Others Outside agents that nudge us

beyond the norm

Play Signals Body language that entails

safety, trust, and possibility Objects, environments, or

substances that suggest a modification of life’s rules

Playspaces A set area over which abnormal

expectations reign.

Being At Play Heightened allowance for

ambiguity, paradox, flexibility

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The Inherently Playful

The Playful Path

Playful Others

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Think of an example of each of these concepts that we didn’t go over already in class.

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