Exploratory Play Research

I’m reading The Ambiguity of Play by Brian Sutton-Smith this week. Sutton-Smith describes 7 rhetorics of play. The predominant modern rhetoric is described as “play as progress,” where children’s play (and notedly not typically adult play) is...

IoT Process – Week 1

I’m trying to use the Wordnik Temboo Choreo to call a random word and make it follow the mouse.  Eventually I’d like to evolve this sketch to call many random words to follow the mouse – I thought that would be a cool interactive “hello,...

Research Questions

The following are questions I’ve been grappling with as I begin to narrow my focus for my M.A. Thesis research: 1. What are the socially defined boundaries between “work” and “play”? How can aspects of “play” and...