Whatever you encounter, however normal signs in life might feel, there is always the opportunity to look at them from a different perspective, a different angle. It is the start, this attitude which enables you to deconstruct and reconstruct the world around you.
Read MoreHow does it feel to get a story told around the campfire? So different from a 3D-IMAX movie experience? The warmth of the fire at your fingertips? What does really move us in a story somebody tells us? Are we alone in understanding them, acting on them, being inspired by them? Or is there an […]
Read MoreAre we simple individuals who meet and connect only because it is useful for survival and reproduction? Or is there more about our social behaviour which especially emerges when we act and think as a group or “hive”?
Read MoreKatie Salen from New Learning Institute on Vimeo. The co-author and editor of the renowned classics of Game Design literature “Rules of Play” and “The Game Design Reader” (both MIT Press) is dealing with a quite practical issue in this prototype middle grade school: How do pupils form a worldview through gaming as well as […]
Read MoreDavid Hon was Director of Play at Mind Candy where he directed one of the first commercially successful Alternate Reality Games called “Perplex City” and is now Co-Founder and CCO of SixToStart. He shortly outlines the perspective of transmedia storytelling citing his own work with Publisher Penguin and why transmedia might change from the “next […]
Read MoreA year has gone. 2010 F.R.O.G. was a descent and inspiring place to share positive ideas about gaming – fully compatible with the organisers`s incentive (Positveprädikatisierung von Computer & Konsolenspielen) and something you did not want to miss if you are somehow connected to games – and happen to live in Vienna. This year´s conference […]
Read MoreIf you ever thought about what Al Gore is producing besides saving the planet from becoming a CO2 Greenhouse then see the newest spawn “BAR KARMA”, a brave attempt to evolve TV with interactivity on his channel current.com. from http://current.com/shows/bar-karma/93002899_once-upon-a-timeline-bar-karma-sneak-peek.htm “A guy walks into a bar…” – what may sound like a the beginning of […]
Read MoreAbout making your own rules, if you need them…
Read More“Trust, like influence, is contextual. To answer the question: who do you trust? honestly, we’d probably need to say “it depends”. [...] It looks like in 2011, trust in academics and experts continues to be high, while trust in people like you has declined. Does that mean we trust the people who are humanizing brands […]
Read More“Eine Regierung, die alle Bürger verdächtigt, sollte abtreten und sich ein anderes Volk suchen.” Volker Beck “A government, which suspects all it´s citizens should step down and search for another populace.”
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