The Play Ethic is Pat Kane's consultancy and network, aiming to promote the power and potential of play.
"What work was for the last 300 years, play will be to the 21st century - our dominant way of knowing, doing and creating value" - Pat Kane
"What work was for the last 300 years, play will be to the 21st century - our dominant way of knowing, doing and creating value" - Pat Kane
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- Founded:
- 2000
Events
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- Meet up with "School of Everyt...
Royal Festival Hall, London
Wednesday, October 6 at 10:30am
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- Cyberspace ≠ big bad wood: children and the Net 5:41am Nov 22
- Ludological in NY (2): Quest 2 Play 3:44am Nov 16
- Ludological in NY (1): conference shots 3:31am Nov 16
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Here's an essay I wrote for my old employer, The Sunday Herald in Scotland, on children and the internet (the uncut version is below, here's the edited version). I was commissioned under the headline, "Who's afraid of the big bad...
Some shots of a fascinating new "gaming literacy" secondary school in New York called Quest To Play at www.instituteofplay.com. Just starting but very promising. Robert Torres (pictured) was the helpful research director. Enough computing going on, but was fascinated by...
A few shots from www.digitallabor.org conference in NY. In order: Trebor Scholz's welcome speech in New School; Sean Cupitt's conceptually extraordinary presentation (see 'participants' in site above); & exit-from-New-York shot.
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Hi everyone, just to say that I'll be tweeting from the Internet as Playground and Factory conference - my stuff is coming through on http://twitter.com/theplayethic, and the conference hashtag is #ipf09. Might be a stream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/parsons-th
play nice!, best, pat
Here's the content of my presentation at the Digital Labor conference in New York, 14th November, 2009. (You can also see a fully footnoted and referenced version (MS Word file). And the Powerpoint presentation on the day is below. And...
Enjoying responding to the mailing list around the forthcoming Digital Labor conference - apologies if it's overly-academic, but that's the kinda place it is..... here's my response to Andrew Ross's piece on Digital Labor Andrew is author of No Collar...
Another one of my postings to the Institute for Distributed Creativity's mail-list, leading up to the Digital Labor: internet as factory and playground conference in New York this month. It's a little embroiled in debates, but I've provided links to...
...but the signs on the wall don't lie (ie, it's all handholding) Taken at Queen Street Lower Station, 29th October 2009
This is a piece I wrote for the charity Working Families, as part of their 30th anniversary celebration, marked by the publication of Tomorrow's World, an anthology of perspectives on work-life balance. Most of the pieces are well worth reading...
Subscribe to Ludocrats at Feedburner or directly at the iTunes store Listen to Ludocrats 1: Ren Reynolds A new, hopefully fortnightly feature on The Play Ethic - a series of podcast conversations called "Ludocrats". Who's a ludocrat? Someone who's interested...
The Play Ethic For anyone interested in how the power and potential of play might impact on the public realm... a new Play Ethic conversation podcast: Ludocrats!
www.theplayethic.com
Subscribe at Feedburner Listen to Ludocrats 1: Ren Reynolds A new, hopefully fortnightly feature on The Play Ethic - a series of podcast conversations called "Ludocrats". Who's a ludocrat? Someone who's interested in the power and potential of play, as...
