Author: Mathias Poulsen
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Loving the Play Community
Reflections on the Playable City Tokyo conference and the talk I gave there about cultivating play communities.
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Playing at the Edge
The theme of CounterPlay ’19 is “playing at the edge”, and we welcome different forms of proposals that reflect this in one way or another. As always, we are eager to explore play from as many different angles as possible, building on our three pillars: playful learning, playful working and playful living.
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Playful Arts Festival 2018
When I was recently driving back from Playful Arts Festival in Den Bosch, the Netherlands, even the dreadful traffic on the Autobahn was not nearly enough to kill my enthusiasm for this great event!
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Materials and Junk-yard Play
Together with our friends Helle Marie Skovbjerg and Ann Charlotte Thorsted, we have formed a small play club and we recently hosted our second event to play with materials and celebrate junk-yard playgrounds.
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From Biel with love
When I came home from the Pro Juventute play festival a few weeks ago, my head was full of impressions, thoughts and ideas – as it always happens after participating in lovely play events. I was particularly struck by the “Playable Esplanade”, where so much joyous play took place.
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IPA Høring: Børn, pædagoger, leg og fremtiden
13 pointer om høringen “Hvordan kan pædagoguddannelsen bidrage til at ruste børn til en fremtid med robotter og kunstig intelligens?”, arrangeret af gode legekammerater i IPA (International Play Association) Danmark.
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Celebrating Play Professors
May 1st Helle Marie Skovbjerg, along with her Dutch colleague, Tilde Bekker, gave their inaugural lectures at Design School Kolding. Both of them were to be professors of play – amazing! – and I had been invited to bring some play to the party!
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På sporet af et Legemanifest
Mit bud på et “legemanifest”, der blev præsenteret på Højskolernes Årsmøde, der blev afholdt på Egmont Højskolen. Jeg fokuserer ikke på, hvad der kommer ud af legen, men hvordan man kommer ind i legen.
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CounterPlay Manifesto
While retaining a fundamental openness, curiosity and the capacity to always learn more about the nature of play, with this manifesto we wish to put a stake in the ground and make our position on play clearly visible.