CounterPlay

Making Playful Society Prototypes since 2014

Category: Art & Culture

  • Playful Philly

    Playful Philly

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    Mathias Poulsen
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    [et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [toc] A while back, I was invited to train a group of instructors, who would be leading six play camps across branches of the Free Library of Philadelphia. “Teach them about play”, my friend Joel requested, and of course I immediately said yes. The training…

  • Playful Libraries – writeup from Next

    Playful Libraries – writeup from Next

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    Mathias Poulsen
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    We’ve been fortunate enough to be a partner at the international Next Library 2015 conference, which has just taken place in the fantastic DOKK1 building here in Aarhus (where CounterPlay ’16 coincidentally also happens to play out next year). I was there on behalf of CounterPlay, and contributed with a super short “ignite talk” and a…

  • Our stories from play

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    Mathias Poulsen
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    At CounterPlay ’14, Jesper Krogh Kristiansen did a presentation about the way we write and talk about games. Traditionally, there’s been a heavy focus on technology when writing about video games, but this is not really what most people really care about (some people do, and that’s ok). Most of us would probably rather talk…