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The Centre for Digital Humanities currently offers an undergraduate program in Interactive Arts and Science (IASC) that supports learning in a wide range of practices and disciplines informed by human-computer interaction, visualization, and simulation. Centre for Digital Humanities invites applications for tenure-track position in Game Studies | Brock University This is good language, embedded in…
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Maker culture, like Lego, is about loss. All building-block toys are about appearance and disappearance, demolition and reconstruction. Maker culture, for all its love of stuff, is similarly a culture of resourcefulness in an era of economic scarcity: relentless in its iterative prototyping, its radically adaptive reuse of ready-made objects, its tendency to unmake one…
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We don’t manage our time as well as we manage our space. There’s an overhead of starting and an overhead of stopping a project because you kind of lose your momentum. And you’ve got to bracket and put aside all the things you’re already doing. So you need reasonably large blocks of uninterrupted time if…
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cinoh: Rural Spot Settled by Religious Group in California Fears a City’s Encroachment MODESTO, Calif. — Farmers and other residents of the rural district known as Wood Colony refer to the 110-year-old arboreal landmark in their midst — a gigantic walnut tree of Grimm’s fairy-tale proportions — as simply, the Tree. To many people in…
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Material Play, a PhD Course at IT University in Copenhagen
This course will explore the relations between materiality and play from a multidisciplinary perspective. Material Play will explore how humans use materials to play, and what characteristics of materiality are more readily used in play activities. The course will explore topics on toys and interaction design, the sociology of material play, and interaction design as…
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Toy researcher Katriina Heljakka has become a familiar face at many toy and play conferences and show. Kati, as she is called, recently conducted her dissertation “Principles of adult play(fulness) in contemporary toy cultures” at the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Finland. The dissertation is published in English. It can be…