by Jinnie Templin | Mar 20, 2015 | MA Project, Process, Projects, Reflection
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″] I’ve been working on creating these toyls (toy-tools) with simple circuits and using interesting materials that prompt playful interactions. As I was creating them and started sharing them, I realized that they were...
by Jinnie Templin | Jan 28, 2015 | MA Project, Research
I’ve been spinning my wheels trying to come up with a solid definition of “play” that assimilates all of the research I’ve done and fully and accurately describes my use of the word/idea in my research endeavors (and in life in general). As Brain Sutton-Smith...
by Jinnie Templin | Jan 22, 2015 | MA Project, Process, Projects, Research
Paper circuitry is something I’ve only worked with tangentially before, and I’ve always thought it was a really cool idea. I chose paper circuitry as a medium to explore primarily because I was interested in the idea that paper is something you find in...
by Jinnie Templin | Jan 15, 2015 | Process, Projects, Reflection
For Graduate Critique, we were given an assignment to make a media representation of our creative praxis. I was struggling a bit as the only non-fine arts student in the class, so I went with what I’m good at- stories. I decided to take this opportunity to teach...
by Jinnie Templin | Jan 11, 2015 | MA Project, Research
Rather than provide a concrete list of play activities (e.g. go for a bike ride, tell a story, sing a song, etc.) this list of playful verbs allows the reader (and the author) to use their own imagination to decide how these verbs can be used to create play states....
