{"id":41061,"date":"2014-03-16T14:25:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T14:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/toy-researcher-katriina-heljakka-has-become-a\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:40:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:40:37","slug":"toy-researcher-katriina-heljakka-has-become-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/toy-researcher-katriina-heljakka-has-become-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-41061 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/toy-researcher-katriina-heljakka-has-become-a\/attachment\/41062\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n2j9e5Ix4Q1qescblo1_500-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>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 \u201cPrinciples of adult play(fulness) in contemporary toy cultures\u201d at the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Finland. The dissertation is published in English. It can be bought or downloaded for free on the website of the Aalto Arts bookshop. Today Kati continues her research on play cultures at the University of Turku (digital culture studies) and works at the family company Tactic, which produces board games. The below article on Kati&rsquo;s work was written in German by Ulla Cramer and kindly translated for us into English. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltoynews.com\/2014\/02\/how-adults-play.html#more\">How Adults Play &#8211; Global Toy News<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cPrinciples of adult play(fulness) in contemporary toy cultures\u201d at the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Finland. The dissertation is published in English. It can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-41061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-aGh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41063,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41061\/revisions\/41063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}