This was written for our Play Sandbox journal back in November, and I forgot to put a copy here. Tine and I are in…
global media mo(ve)ment
From induction session for MA Global Media Management at WSA… The videogame Sonic the Hedgehog was released in the United States and Europe in…
gesture, play, and video
gesture from Seth Giddings on Vimeo.
gesture, technology and play
This is the website for a symposium organised by Helen W Kennedy, Patrick Crogan and myself at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol in…
SimKnowledge
I have a chapter in Michelle Henning’s Museum Media, one of Wiley’s new International Handbooks of Museum Studies. It’s called ‘SimKnowledge: what museums can learn…
DiGRA 2015: the past and future of players
ecological and ethological studies of children’s play My contribution to the DiGRA 2015 panel From Game Studies to Studies of Play, with Frans Mäyrä, Sebastian…
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…
DanceTag report
It took a while, but the report on the DanceTag project (written by myself and Zannah Doan) is available for download. It is, I…
what is the state of play? the work of the Opies in the postdigital era
full article here Re-reading Iona Opie’s The People in the Playground (1994) I was struck by the fact that the children she was watching,…
Play Sandbox showcase
Two big play tests for the Connected Play swing project Light Bug over the past couple of months. Details to follow but here is…
swing test
Brandon Hill Park, one cold, wet and windy December evening…