The central theme of the proposed activity is the future of toys in a digital media culture. Taking recent developments in ‘hybrid’ toy and…
Category: toy theory
game tokens
Drawing after a photograph in a New Scientist article about the archaeological discovery in Turkey of game tokens from the early Bronze Age,…
Pokémon Go as distributed imagination
Here’s a draft of a short article accepted for a special section of Mobile Media & Communication on Pokémon Go: The appeal of…
the hybrid realities of Pokémon (before Pokémon Go)
Excerpt from Gameworlds: virtual media and children’s everyday play, 79-85. Transmedia systems: Drawing Pokémon As a transmedia system, Pokémon is designed to open up numerous and…
Pokémon as new mass media
Something I started writing at the end of the last century! From Lister et al 2009, New Media: a critical introduction 2nd ed.), 292-294…
the end of toys
Watch this space for a new project to explore the design, philosophy and lived experience of the toy in children’s postdigital culture. Focussing on…
on not re-inventing Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy
Outside, in the garden, it was playtime. Naked in the warm June sunshine, six or seven hundred little boys and girls were running with…
robots are go
With Silas Adekunle of Reach Robotics I have just been awarded a REACT Prototype grant to research playful robotics. More as it develops, but…
Monsters, mini-games, and Mr Happy
A video essay on virtual and actual play. Published in Audio-Visual Thinking: a journal of academic videos, no. 3, Sep 2011