In this intermediate level Art & Design Practice course, Liberal Arts & Sciences learners researched play by conducting practical experiments to observe and test how playfulness can be mapped, stimulated and enhanced in public space, and under which conditions it can emerge and evolve. They also identified and visualized potential threats to a playful, learning and inclusive city.

Through community fieldwork and on site prototyping (= making models to test ideas) the group engaged in shared, experimental learning. In a five-week video assignment and a seven-week, self-directed “action-research” project leading up to the collective exhibition The Yellow House, each learner developed a hands-on understanding of how a playful, learning society could be seeded and nurtured.

September 5, 2018 // Esmé Valk's guest session

'Free play' exercise led by artist and Emmi Pikler pedagoge Esmé Valk, September 2018.

'Free play' exercise led by Esmé Valk, September 5, 2018

Discussion questions for the Mapping Playful Middelburg photo exercise led by Esmé Valk following her lecture "Environments for Play and autonomy", September 5, 2018

September 26, 2018 Screening of version 2 video works with invited guest artist Ramon de Nennie, founder of Stichting Decreet and Geef het een Plek!

October 10, 2018 // Ivar Troost's guest session on Ludic Learning

Guest talk by UCR alumnus and designer Ivar Troost on ludic learning, October 10th 2018. Full pdf here.

October 24, 2018 // To Compose (v.) collage workshop with Paris-based design duo dach&zephir at project space Onomatopee.

Photo by dach@zephir, Field Essays, Eloj Kreyol: Make Do (planned publication Spring 2019), Onomatopee.

Photo by dach@zephir

Photo by dach@zephir

Photo by dach@zephir

Photo by dach@zephir

Photo by dach@zephir

November 14, 2018, Talk with Maria Boezem, to learn about how and why she curated De Verborgen Stad (The Hidden City), a 1997 project at Vleeshal

October 31, 2018 // Learning from the Play Seminar