LEGO studies

Posted on By sethgiddings

A list, with links, to my various writings on LEGO toys and games:

Construction toys, chapter in Toy Theory: technology and imagination in play. 2024.

The speed and slowness of [LEGO] Lucy, Batman, Batman, Gandalf and Dumbledore, from Toy Theory: technology and imagination in play. 2024.

An imaginary system, preface to Taylor and Ingraham, LEGOfied: building blocks as media. 2020.

At work in the toybox: bedrooms, playground and ideas of play in creative cultural work, with Dan Ashton. 2018.

LEGO and LEGO Foundation (encyclopedia entries) 2017.

excerpts from Gameworlds: virtual media and children’s everyday play. 2014.

Bright bricks, dark play: on the impossibility of studying LEGO, in Wolf (ed.) LEGO studies: examining the building blocks of a transmedial phenomenon. 2014.

‘Little Jesuses and fuck-off robots’: on aesthetics, cybernetics, and not being very good at LEGO Star Wars, with Helen W. Kennedy. 2008.

‘I’m the one who makes the LEGO Racers go:’ studying virtual and actual play, in Weber and Dixon (Eds) Growing Up Online: young people and digital technologies. 2007.

Circuits: a video essay on virtual and actual play. 2003 (please ask for access).