by Jinnie Templin | Oct 13, 2014 | MA Project, Research
What is play? There are many lenses through which play scholars have examined play. In his book, The Ambiguity of Play, Brian Sutton-Smith details what he has identified as the seven rhetorics of play that most play activities and behaviors can be categorized. He...
by Jinnie Templin | Oct 7, 2014 | Process, Projects
Project 1 update: I decided to integrate some of the ideas I’ve been developing for my thesis project work into Project 1. Through Project 1, I’m attempting to make the sometimes tedious “work task” of searching for a job more playful. When a...
by Jinnie Templin | Oct 6, 2014 | MA Project, Research
Contemporary, “always-on,” US workforces have expressed frustrations with an increasingly disproportionate work-life balance. Building off of the concept of imaginative play, this project aims to address various “work tasks” in a more playful manner. Equipping the...
by Jinnie Templin | Oct 1, 2014 | MA Project, Research
This is the start of my mindmap about my thesis topic. As I’ve been reading and researching, I’ve been adding nodes and making new connections. I don’t think this is anywhere close to being “complete” (is a mindmap ever really complete?),...
by Jinnie Templin | Oct 1, 2014 | MA Project, Research
Here’s the working draft of the timeline for my MA thesis project. I’m using Timeline JS, which runs off of a Google spreadsheet doc and automatically updates the timeline when I add new line items to the spreadsheet. There’s also the capability to...
