Jonathan Magee's List: Transformation-Integrative And Creative Play

Institute for Play The Patterns of Play 5

Oct 30, 13

Transformative-Integrative and Creative Play

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- We can access fantasy-play to transcend the reality of our ordinary lives, and in the process germinate new ideas, and shape and re-shape them.
- our play drive takes us into these realms spontaneously.
- Einstein imaginatively riding pleasurably on a sunbeam at the speed of light, or a light-hearted group of IDEO corporation designers wildly imagining a new product, each is using their playfulness to innovate and create.
- With the advent of brain imaging technology, these natural tendencies, so important to adaptation in a changing world
- Play + Science = Transformation.
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