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PhD as play workshop

First in person iteration of this workshop for PhD Intensive Week at WSA since the pandemic.

Much of the time, PhD research and writing feels like serious and hard work, and is distinctly unplayful. In this workshop we will harness the energies and forms of play for your project and its development. Through the design of toy- and game-like artefacts and systems we will:

  1. test playful and creative tactics for generating ideas and exploring conceptual relationships
  2. effect a critical disruption of the narrative and discursive conventions that underpin academic knowledge generation and presentation
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