Book launch 14 May 2019 17:00 – 18:30 “The Playful Citizen:Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture” Spui25 in Amsterdam >> In cooperation with Amsterdam University […] Read More
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
Long time in the making but finally available as an Open Access Publication: The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture, edited by René Glas, Sybille […] Read More
Just out in a recent publication, a chapter in which I explore the notion of the playful city or playable city as an alternative to the […] Read More
This is the presentation for the talk that I gave at the Playin Siegen International Urban Games Festival & Seminar on Sunday 19 April 2015, for which I […] Read More
Last year, The Mobile City partnered in the project “Rezone Playful Interventions” about the use of playful design strategies to repurpose vacant spaces. In this […] Read More
Tomorrow is the opening of Rezone Playful Interventions in the almost abandoned factory De Heus in Den Bosch. I have been involved in this project, […] Read More
As announced in the last post, on 6 March 2013 I gave a talk for the urban game project Rezone in Den Bosch about (digital) […] Read More
The initiators of the urban game project Rezone in the city of Den Bosch have invited me to give a talk about play and ownership. […] Read More
As part-time lecturer at Utrecht University, I am one of the co-organizers of this event: When: 25 – 27 June 2012. Where: Sweelinckzaal Utrecht University […] Read More
Just came back from the ‘Remediating Urban Space: Exploring Design Responses‘ symposium at the Plymouth University in Plymouth, UK. Thanks to the organizing committee: Alessandro […] Read More
(Also posted on The Mobile City blog) Found via Textually.org > Engadget Mobile > Make (nice trail): Artist Jorge Colombo (Portugal) made a couple of […] Read More
‘Funsmith’ Bernie DeKoven wrote a post on his site Deepfun about the differences between game communities and play communities. The post consists of the usual […] Read More
Here is a great case of mobile phones playing a role in mass media reports, and their ‘playful’ characteristics in story-telling: Last Friday, December 19 […] Read More
This BBC article “The power of play on the internet” is interesting in the light of our overarching “Playful Identities” research question: How do new […] Read More
Shoot-n- Share is a documentary made by two young students at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Lieke van Pruijssen and Bieke Versloot. It is a film […] Read More
Sad as it is, the Joran van der Sloot and Natalee Holloway case has a funny side to it. And the mobile phone plays a […] Read More
Yesterday I went to Urbanfest ’07 in “Dreampark” Ancol, north Jakarta. This festival, organized for the first time, had lots of contemporary culture such as […] Read More
Today, 17 August 2007, Indonesia celebrated the 62th year of independence from Dutch colonial rule. Although my 3rd time in Indonesia, it’s the first time […] Read More
“Take fun seriously” – great motto for our ‘playful identities’ project ! Taken at transit busway Dukuh Atas, Jakarta, August 15 2007.
A week or two ago (just before the migration of this blog the a new server) I walked past an outdoors advertisement in Amsterdam, near […] Read More