digital playgrounds - by Spencer Chang
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how might we imagine extended environments that empower us to play together?
A core tenet of my communal computing research is that play is essential to any healthy learning, creation, and flourishing (see Homo Ludens). Play is fundamental to agency, the secret ingredient for creating a society where people feel empowered to express themselves and in communion with others. In addition to the standards of what you’d expect from technical research (lots of reading, practice implementing, speculating, etc.), I want to know how we can propagate the cultural change necessary for making this sort of imagination, play, and agency the expected norm. In these futures I’m…
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