Posts Tagged ‘playgrounds’

A Playful Stance — My Game Design London 2008 Talk

In Talks on 17 November 2008 tagged architecture, conferences, control, design, emergence, game design, Game Design London, GD, GDL, interaction design, IxD, learning, media, play, Playful 08, playgrounds, presentations, skateboarding, slides, Talks, tools, underspecification with 10 comments

A while ago I was interviewed by Sam Warnaars. He’s researching people’s conference experiences; he asked me what my most favourite and least favourite conference of the past year was. I wish he’d asked me after my trip to Playful ’08, because it has been by far the best conference experience to date. Why? Because [...]

Second Order Design and Play in a Pattern Language

In Articles on 2 March 2008 tagged A Pattern Language, architecture, books, Christopher Alexander, emergence, patterns, play, playgrounds with 2 comments

According to Molly, architects hate Christopher Alexander’s guts. Along with a lot of other interaction designers I happen to think his book A Pattern Language is a wonderful resource. It has some interesting things to say about designing for emergence—or second order design—and also contains some patterns related to play. So following the example of [...]