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 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 MoreUndergraduate students were assigned the task of spending from fifteen minutes to an hour in their homes viewing its activities while assuming that they were boarders in the household. They were instructed not to act out the assumption. Thirty-three students reported their experiences. [. . .] “A short, stout man entered the house, kissed me […]
Read MoreQuantitative easing playfully explained. Watch this, check it for yourself, open the window and scream:’I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!’ We want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as […]
Read MoreI do not know who made the cartoon, but it depicts in a wonderfully functional way how to properly interact with programmers…
Read MoreSUPERFLEX is a Danish artists’ group founded and directed by Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen. It has been working since 1993 on a series of projects related to economic forces, democratic production conditions and self-organisation. The artists have examined alternative energy production methods (Supergas) and commodity production in Brazil, Thailand and Europe in […]
Read MoreUnfortunately only available in German, Sandra Benz and Vera Warter created a beautiful cookbook for the postmodern counter-propaganda. Subversive, nicely crafted and very useful. A recommendation for those who think that their opinion should augment in range, but not by PR budget. www.protesthandbuch.de
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