Category: Play
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Trying to live better lives together
This is a weird, meandering, rambling text and I don’t know where it’s going. It’s too long and full of unfinished thinking and random quotes by people much smarter than me. However, it embodies the spirit in which it is written, it grapples with the complexities and uncertainties of being a human being living through…
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Pedagogies of Togetherness
This past week, I have been at Aalto University, participating in a wonderful residency exploring ‘pedagogies of togetherness’ with a fabulous group of people from around the world. It’s been a wildly inspiring, completely overwhelming and profoundly hopeful experience. I’m still in Helsinki and only slowly gathering my impressions, thoughts and ideas that is already…
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Playing with playfulness
For many years, I have been pondering the relationship between ‘play’ and ‘playfulness’. I have come to believe that the very possibility of distinguishing between play and playfulness has been vastly overstated. The more I think about it, the less sense it makes to view them as separate entities. They are perhaps more like units…