Mathias Poulsen
A collection of new & old resources on play, mostly in English.
Be inspired to live more playfully by author, fun theorist and games guru Bernard de Koven.
When I was a child in the 1950s, my friends and I had two educations. We had school (which was not the big deal it is today), and we also had what I call a hunter-gather education. We played in mixed-age neighbourhood groups almost every day after school, often until dark.
With never-before-seen video, primatologist Isabel Behncke Izquierdo (a TED Fellow) shows how bonobo ape society learns from constantly playing -- solo, with friends, even as a prelude to sex. Indeed, play appears to be the bonobos' key to problem-solving and avoiding conflict. If it works for our close cousins, why not for us?
Amazon.com: Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture (9780807046814): Johan Huizinga: Books
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Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul [Stuart Brown, Christopher Vaughan] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Read Stuart Brown's posts on the Penguin Blog. From a leading expert, a groundbreaking book on the science of play
" Play Matters opens a door into our increasingly playful world. It frames the world of play and playfulness just enough to create a coherent image of these fundamental forces, without spoiling the fun. It opens a way into this world, inviting the reader to engage, creatively and intelligently, in the design of an even more playful future."
What role does playful behaviour and playful thought take in animal and human development? How does play relate to creativity and, in turn, to innovation? Unravelling the different meanings of 'play', this book focuses on non-aggressive playful play. The authors emphasise its significance for development and evolution, before examining the importance of playfulness in creativity.
http://www.ted.com A pioneer in research on play, Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults -- and keeping it up can make us smarter at any age.
Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us must merely speculate. Is it a kind of adaptation which teaches us skills and inducts us into certain communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess, or fate, deployed in games of chance, or daydreaming, enacted in art?
"This is one of the most brilliant and overlooked books on games to date. For anyone interested in playing, studying, designing, or writing about games, this should be a perennial and oft-referenced bookshelf companion." - Celia Pearce, author of Communities of Play " The Well-Played Game focuses on a kind of fun that is unfortunately not normally associated with games, and certainly not with sports.
