This paper presents the case study of a project that investigated whether an art-based playful placemaking activity can cause individuals to reimagine the rules and expand the possibilities of public space. It studies how dynamics of place and signs may be shifted by giving a playful excuse to do so. The paper is based on a playful interaction called #playsign that took place during the spring of 2019 and presents examples, via images, of how new – even surreal - layers of perception of place can be enhanced. By enabling site-specific play and boosting ludic aesthetics, we can also generate a sense of attachment to a place.
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Are you and your students stifled by your boring, run-of-the-mill induction sessions? Would you like to try something more engaging? Then you should seriously consider reading this book, "The Librarians’ Book on Teaching through Games and Play" by Andrew Walsh, ISBN 9781911500070.
{"title":"Book review for The Librarians’ Book on Teaching through Games and Play","authors":"Vicky Bird","doi":"10.5920/JPA.635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/JPA.635","url":null,"abstract":"Are you and your students stifled by your boring, run-of-the-mill induction sessions? Would you like to try something more engaging? Then you should seriously consider reading this book, \"The Librarians’ Book on Teaching through Games and Play\" by Andrew Walsh, ISBN 9781911500070.","PeriodicalId":202566,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Play in Adulthood","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132383432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The CounterPlay Festival ran from the 4th - 6th April 2019, in Aarhus, Denmark. The conference write-up from a first time attendee of the conference explores what the attendee took away from the experience of attending the festival and their reflections from it.
{"title":"“Forgetting why you’re here”, Counterplay 2019.","authors":"Jess Haigh","doi":"10.5920/JPA.631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/JPA.631","url":null,"abstract":"The CounterPlay Festival ran from the 4th - 6th April 2019, in Aarhus, Denmark. The conference write-up from a first time attendee of the conference explores what the attendee took away from the experience of attending the festival and their reflections from it.","PeriodicalId":202566,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Play in Adulthood","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133089967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Playful Learning, Events and Activities to Engage Adults.","authors":"Clare Thomson","doi":"10.5920/JPA.654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/JPA.654","url":null,"abstract":"Book review of \"Playful Learning, Events and Activities to Engage Adults\", editors Nicola Whitton & Alex Moseley, ISBN: 9781351021869.","PeriodicalId":202566,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Play in Adulthood","volume":"218 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115525279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Play is often seen as inappropriate in adult settings, with social expectations causing adults to frame situations in such a way that we often lack permission to play. Semi-structured interviews with fourteen people who use playful approaches with adults were carried out to explore how they gave this “permission to play” in their contexts. It was seen that they used a range of different ways consistent with the idea of needing to signal a shift in frame, and this range of approaches to giving “permission to play” are grouped and summarized in the article.
{"title":"Giving permission for adults to play.","authors":"Andrew Walsh","doi":"10.5920/JPA.565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/JPA.565","url":null,"abstract":"Play is often seen as inappropriate in adult settings, with social expectations causing adults to frame situations in such a way that we often lack permission to play. Semi-structured interviews with fourteen people who use playful approaches with adults were carried out to explore how they gave this “permission to play” in their contexts. It was seen that they used a range of different ways consistent with the idea of needing to signal a shift in frame, and this range of approaches to giving “permission to play” are grouped and summarized in the article.","PeriodicalId":202566,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Play in Adulthood","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122150109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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