Why Play Works.
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Why Play Works.
Do you have a niggling feeling, a secret hope, that work could be more joyful, more fun and (maybe) a little bit wilder? Do you sense deep down that doing great work doesn't need to be a slog? In Why Play Works, Lucy Taylor and Tzuki Stewart hear the stories of people who are radically reshaping...
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Playful Methods To Cultivate Playful Attributes
How do you use playfulness and LEGO® to make an impact on something as serious as climate change?
Lucy Hawthorne is the founder of Climate Play...
Restoring the world as a strange place of wonder
Have you ever entered a meeting and instantly been set up to fail? Do organizations really want to change or just be seen to change?
Consultant...
Creating a Playful and Purposeful Workplace
What is the point of play? Is it just acting like a child at work?
Nicole has grown children's brands, Ella's Kitchen and worked at informal cre...
Pringles, the gift that keeps on giving
Ace thinks play is wonderful. He sees it as explorative and unstructured, where we scan the world in which we exist and see all of the opportunities t...
Play isn’t an activity, it’s an attitude
Start a conversation with, “do you think a hotdog is a sandwich?” and see the playful reaction.
Catherine Price is an advocate of bringing peop...
"When my fingers are moving, I'm golden"
Play, creativity and imagination can enable people to look at things differently,
to extend their own potential. But formal education suppresse...
We’re wired for play - So do it!
Gary Ware needs curiosity, exploration and imagination in his life. How can we bring these qualities into our day to day life?
Gary grew up as t...
Enlightened muddling through
Colonel Jason “TOGA” Trew is on a mission to help airmen reintegrate intuition, creativity, storytelling, and play into strategic thinking. A Colonel...
Adding play to your DNA
Play is the key to collaboration and co-operation. Work and play are intrinsically interlinked, and without play, people are unable to make connection...
Play as the mother of invention
There are alternatives to PowerPoint, and to playing Devil’s Advocate. Filling a space with foosball tables and slides doesn’t inherently make a space...
The value of play can’t be measured in numbers alone, with Dr Heidi Edmundson
Many people feel they work better under pressure, but if you need to think creatively, a relaxed environment will work far better. That’s how Dr Heidi...
Serious work calls for serious play
Tommy Crawford and Brian Fitzgerald of Dancing Fox work with individuals and organisations tackling problems as diverse and weighty as climate change...
Play is a birthright
Our sense of culture and identity impacts how we approach and conceptualise play. Many of the black women Stacey-Ann Morris has worked with have felt...
Play connects us
Play is a powerful connector, transcending boundaries of culture and background. That’s the philosophy that Kay Scorah brings to her play practise.
Wear your most playful hat to work
Play is a form of exploration, and it begins with the environment we have at our fingertips. This is Lee Kim’s approach to play, and it permeates the...
Let go, notice more, use everything
Improv is a social technology for approaching uncertainty and complexity. That’s the philosophy Robert Poynton brings to his playful practice.
Introducing Why Play Works
Lucy Taylor from Make Work Play and Tzuki Stewart from Playfilled interview play practitioners, academics, and leaders who are taking play seriously.<...