Adult playfulness - Games for play awareness
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swapnesh samaiya
May 14, 2018, 3:17:07 PM5/14/18
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Hello all,
I'm working on a thesis project on adults playfulness, wherein I'm trying to understand how do we become less playful as we grow old? or so we lack the opportunity of play(social, cultural) in today's modern civilizations, which directly deals with the problems of social anxiety, depression, and loneliness, as somewhere we forget to be playful with people and with ourselves, we start to become more serious in life and also start feeling the fear of misinterpretation and judgement. Play/game at its core has the quality of freedom and expression and problem like this can be solved through play.
I'm trying to map, in which context(places, people, scenarios), adults feel safe to express themselves playfully, Games are one of such contexts but not everyone plays the games, right?
If anyone knows of research/games/material on the similar lines of interest, please let me know, it would be of great help.
I'm working on a thesis project on adults playfulness, wherein I'm trying to understand how do we become less playful as we grow old? or so we lack the opportunity of play(social, cultural) in today's modern civilizations, which directly deals with the problems of social anxiety, depression, and loneliness, as somewhere we forget to be playful with people and with ourselves, we start to become more serious in life and also start feeling the fear of misinterpretation and judgement. Play/game at its core has the quality of freedom and expression and problem like this can be solved through play.
I'm trying to map, in which context(places, people, scenarios), adults feel safe to express themselves playfully, Games are one of such contexts but not everyone plays the games, right?
If anyone knows of research/games/material on the similar lines of interest, please let me know, it would be of great help.
thanks,
be playful
be playful
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Sebastian Deterding
May 29, 2018, 10:32:09 AM5/29/18
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Hi there,
you may want to have a look at the "Adult Play" special issue in Games and Culture, which <plug> includes an article by me on alibis for adult play </plug>.
http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gaca/13/3
Am 5/14/18 um 8:11 PM schrieb swapnesh samaiya:
you may want to have a look at the "Adult Play" special issue in Games and Culture, which <plug> includes an article by me on alibis for adult play </plug>.
http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gaca/13/3
Am 5/14/18 um 8:11 PM schrieb swapnesh samaiya:
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Joe Wasserman
May 30, 2018, 4:47:13 PM5/30/18
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In some recent work I've been doing with hobbyist boardgamers, it has been not uncommon for them to report playing boardgames as an acceptable form of adult play or to recapture some feeling of childhood. Unfortunately, I don't have a citation to provide at the moment, but I hope to present this research at NCA in the fall.
Best,
Joe
Mark Chen
May 30, 2018, 5:23:06 PM5/30/18
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I don't know the answer to this: Would "serious leisure" stuff from Stebbins fit?
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You see before you Mark Chen, PhD.
Above his head appears a label that changes every time you look at it between "Hoodie-Wearing Games Scholar Thug," "PT Lecturer at UW Bothell," and "President of the United States, purveyor of alternative facts."
Do you send him a tweet (@mcdanger), check out his website (markdangerchen.net), or respond to this email?
He looks at you expectantly with a smile.
Staples, Carolyn I
Jun 4, 2018, 9:46:25 AM6/4/18
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Swapnesh,
What an interesting question. I am trying to find ways to keep my parents engaged (80+) and finding games/experiences that they would find accessible and interesting is a challenge.
To answer your question, you might contact Mary Couzin <mco...@chitag.com>.
She runs a game/toy conference in Chicago. https://www.chitag.com/
She might have some suggestions.
Cary
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