Is there Something Going On? Play in Higher Ed around the world - Nov. 17 webinar

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Gwen Lowenheim

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Oct 18, 2024, 12:08:13 PM10/18/24

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Hello friends,

I am excited to share with you an upcoming event on November 17th at 2:30 - 4:00 pm: Play in Higher Ed: Is there Something Going on? It is part of the Play, Development and Social Justice Webinar series at the East Side Institute.

It is an international conversation and features, among others, Lisa Forbes & David Thomas at Professors-at_Play!!!

The other presenters are from 3 international organizations:-- The Learning Planet, CounterPlay and Kolding: Lab for Play & Design --all playfully subversive groups in the best sense of the word.

See more in the eblast below - with bios. And you can register here.

We hope you can join and create this vibrant experience with us!!!

All best,

Gwen

...There is something playful afoot in the university…

In classrooms, offices, and grassy quads, educators and students are experimenting with improvisation, gaming, and artistic and cultural practices in ways that de-alienate teaching and learning.

Help create a public conversation that is practical, playful, and potentially transformative.

Sun, Nov 17

2:30-4:00 PM (EST/UTC-5)

Fee: $45 | $30 | $20

Co-Hosts

Carrie Lobman is a sociocultural scholar and play movement leader. She is the Leader of Education and Research at the East Side Institute and associate professor in the department of Learning and Teaching at the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. She facilitates the Institute's "Play, Development and Social Justice" webinar series and co-leads the International Class, its flagship program. She serves as a mentor to emerging performance activists around the world and is on the national board of directors of the All Stars Project. Carrie is the co-author or co-editor of three books: Unscripted Learning: Using Improvisation across the K-8 Curriculum , Big Ideas and Revolutionary Activity: Selected Essays, Talks and Articles by Lois Holzman and Performance and Play: Play and Culture Series, Volume 11.

Luke Perone is a faculty member in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma where he teaches courses in human development and life-span imaginative play. He is also an associate of The East Side Institute and is a long-standing builder of its international performance movement. His research, teaching, and activism include the power of imaginative play, improvisational theater, performance activism, social therapeutics, humanitarian clowning, and socially-engaged arts to create revolutionary opportunities for learning, development, and community building. He co-edited (with Carrie Lobman) Big Ideas and Revolutionary Activity: Selected Talks, Essays, and Articles by Lois Holzman and is the editor of the forthcoming book Improvising With and In Higher Education: All Together Now for the series Palgrave Studies in Play, Performance, Learning and Development. He received his doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Illinois Chicago and his training in social therapeutics from the East Side Institute.

Playful Innovators

Lisa K. Forbes, PhD is a co-founder of Professors at Play. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Counseling Program at the University of Colorado Denver. Lisa is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Play Therapist. Her research centers around intensive mothering practices, gender conformity, and mental health and…you guessed it, play and fun in teaching and learning!

Mathias Poulsen, PhD is a postdoctoral researcher at Lab for Play and Design, Design School Kolding, Denmark. His research engages with the difficulties of living well together, for both humans and more-than humans. He is particularly interested in play as a mode of democratic participation with the potential to expand our democratic imaginaries. Mathias is a self-proclaimed play activist, who founded the international play festival ‘CounterPlay’ to cultivate safe, trusting spaces and communities for exploring and sustaining play.

Ed Stevenette manages international youth engagement projects at Learning Planet Institute in Paris, a centre for researching and learning to tackle global challenges. He notably coordinates the Learning Planet Youth Design Challenge, an annual competition that invites young people to design learning programs for their ideal university. Additionally, Ed oversees the Learning Planet Youth Fellows community, uniting young individuals worldwide passionate about rethinking education. At heart, he is deeply committed to creating learning experiences to impact and improve education systems.

David Thomas, PhD is a co-founder of Professors at Play. He is the Executive Director of Online Programs at the University of Denver and Assistant Professor Attendant in the Department of Architecture at the University of Colorado Denver. His research centers around fun, fun objects (like buildings!) and the meaning of play.