Last thursday, December 8, the full Playful Identities Group (P.I.G.) got together at Waag Society for a meeting amongst ourselves and later with a couple of people from Waag Society. Eva Nieuwdorp, the third AIO of the group, joined us starting December 1st 2005, so all 6 of us were there: Jos de Mul, Valerie Frissen, Joost Raessens, Jeroen Timmermans, Eva Nieuwdorp and myself. We introduced ourselves to the others and talked about some practical matters.
At 14:00 Waag Society joined in, chaired by Henk van Zeijts, head of the division Creative Learning. First, we introduced the research topic, and separately introduced our individual topics. After that, Waag Society introduced a few of their projects, specifically those that have to do with identity, mobile communication and learning. Waag Society are looking for more scientific depth, and we are looking for ways to collaborate with organisations that ‘produce’ new technologies.
The most interesting project I believe was Frequency 1550 that will be transformed in the future into Frequency Nu. It’s a project that explores the way ubiquitous computing/communication can be introduced into a learning environment.
Below the preparatory notes a made for the meeting, briefly discussing narrative identity, some shortcomings, and some ways in which the central concept of ‘play’ should be introduced into a ludic theory of identity.
