{"id":1608,"date":"2010-01-05T22:10:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T20:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2010-01-06T19:15:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T17:15:21","slug":"week-132","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/05\/week-132\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 132"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m taking up the challenge Matt Webb posted in his last weeknote of the year 2009<\/a> and will be posting weeknotes<\/a> of my own here for the foreseeable future. You can expect stuff about design work I do at Hubbub<\/a>, teaching at the Utrecht School of the Arts<\/a> and perhaps bits about This happened<\/a> and other side endeavors.<\/p>\n

So this is week 132 of my freelance career. I started on July 1st 2007, which coincided with a move to Copenhagen (I’ve moved back to Utrecht since). <\/p>\n

Most of this week is taken up by a workshop – titled Move It<\/em> – I’m running together with Evert Hoogendoorn and Marinka Copier at the Utrecht School of the Arts. All first year students of the games and interaction courses are participating, around 130 in all. That’s a crazy number, it’s really taxing, but also a lot of fun. Lots of good vibes when we’re all in the same room. The assignment we’ve given them is to design a new sports experience. It should take place in the centre of Utrecht, and they should not only design the play of the sport, but also the experience of the audience, the referee, bookmaker, etc. We kicked off on monday,1<\/a><\/sup> today was open Q&A, tomorrow will be a mid-way review and on friday they’ll present the final game in the form of a three-minute video. There’ll be 24 videos in total, all posted to this Vimeo group<\/a>. I’m really looking forward to the end results.<\/p>\n

Other than that I’m hoping to get started properly with a consulting project I’ve codenamed Tako.2<\/a><\/sup> It’s about exploring opportunities for playful additions to the programs of some of Utrecht’s major cultural events. The project’s commissioned by the city of Utrecht. I’ll talk more about it once the work is underway.<\/p>\n

What else\u2026 This being the new year, there’s plenty of receptions. Today I attended one at the Utrecht School of the Arts. Tomorrow I’ll be at the monthly lunch organised by the Dutch Game Garden<\/a>3<\/a><\/sup> which’ll probably involve some new year shenanigans.<\/p>\n

I was also doing the obligatory financial admin that comes with the start of a new month, a new quarter and a new year (thank god there’s nothing special related to this being a new decade). Invoicing, that sort of thing. <\/p>\n

Also, I sent out a message to some of my old friends in Copenhagen, since I’m planning a six-week stay there in spring. I’m hoping to do some work there. Have heard back from a few already, so that’s encouraging.<\/p>\n

There’s also more than the usual amount of meetings to talk about potential new projects. All quite interesting and exciting, who knows what’ll come of those.<\/p>\n

So that’s the first weeknote out of the way. It’s interesting how doing this increases my awareness of all the stuff that’s going on. It’s hard not to feel a little overwhelmed. I hope it’s of some interest to you though. <\/p>\n

Onwards!<\/p>

  1. I ran a brief ideation session using a design game developed by Jussi Holopainen et al. at the Nokia Research Center<\/a>. [↩<\/a>]<\/span><\/li>
  2. I’ve gotten into the habit of naming new projects after Japanese seafood. [↩<\/a>]<\/span><\/li>
  3. Which is where I have my studio. [↩<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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