Ludics

LUDICS Speaker: Serena Gabriels, Member of Mobius Artists Group Play, pretend, and whimsical imagination are usually associated with childhood. As we shift into adulthood, childlike discovery starts to fade into the background. Playfulness elicits wonder...

LUDICS Speaker: Matt Hovde, IDEO Play Lab Join IDEO Play Lab’s Matt Hovde in a conversation about the fascinating intersection of play and design. From feedback loops to the magic circle, we will explore how games and play can help us unlock our...

LUDICS Speaker: Michael W Yogman MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, retired; Board Chair: Playful Learning Landscape Summary of talk : 1. Cultural shifts limit opportunities for children to play 2. Play is intrinsically...

LUDICS April 19th- April 20th 2024: LUDICS SEMINAR, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University; GOETHE INSTITUTE OF BOSTON; Citizen TALES Commons Crafting the Real: Forms and Politics of the Documentary in the Interplay of Theatre, Music, Film and...

LUDICS SPEAKER: KAI TUCHMANN, Central Academy of Drama in Beijing NOTE ON THESE THREE STAGES: Throughout this Lecture-Workshop I will display how documentary theatre uses autobiographical elements -in order to critically engage with historiography. A...

LUDICS SPEAKER: Jenny Marketou, The New School/Parsons in New York In 2021 Jenny Marketou proposed "Serious Games" to the city of Chania in Crete to turn the historic but abandoned Yiali Tzami (Mosque ) into a playground exclusively for young people and...

LUDICS SPEAKER: Angeliki Spiropoulou, University of the Peloponnese, Greece Counter to the conventional perception of modernism as ahistorical, there have been many recent academic and critical efforts to historicize it. This paper will attempt to address...

LUDICS SPEAKER: Robert M. Fagen, Ronin Institute, Montclair, NJ RESPONDENT: Brian Boyd, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Dogs wrestle and chase, lambs gambol, and ravens do acrobatics. Scientists have never satisfactorily explained why animals do...

LUDICS SPEAKERS: Peter Levine (Tufts University), Catalina-Florina Florescu (Pace University), Gabe Mugar (IDEO Cambridge), Diana Ramírez-Jasso (Tecnológico de Monterrey), and Zenovia Toloudi (Dartmouth College) MODERATOR: Eric Gordon When is play a...