toy theory | microethology

toying with the singularity

Posted on April 28, 2018July 2, 2020 By sethgiddings

I’ve added a draft of ‘Toying with the singularity’ to the Publications page – a chapter for The Internet of Toys: practices, affordances and the political…

why so Serious(tm)? playing with LEGO Serious Play

Posted on February 10, 2018February 10, 2018 By sethgiddings

edited excerpt from Ashton and Giddings 2018, At work in the toy box: bedrooms, playgrounds and theories of play in creative cultural work International Journal of…

toyworlds

Posted on January 11, 2018January 11, 2018 By sethgiddings

Toys, materiality, and imagination (extracts from Gameworlds: virtual media and children’s everyday play, NY: Bloomsbury 2014).

future of toys… network ideas

Posted on March 30, 2017November 20, 2017 By sethgiddings

The central theme of the proposed activity is the future of toys in a digital media culture. Taking recent developments in ‘hybrid’ toy and…

game tokens

Posted on November 16, 2016January 11, 2018 By sethgiddings

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

Posted on October 19, 2016October 19, 2016 By sethgiddings

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)

Posted on July 20, 2016January 11, 2018 By sethgiddings

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…