by Ben Ross | 21 Feb 2017 | Uncategorized
I went to see Steven Johnson talk about his new book, Wonderland, all about how Play has spurred innovation throughout history. It was a fascinating talk, and like all the great ideas, once explained it felt obviously true. He shared just a few examples of the stories...
by Ben Ross | 16 Feb 2017 | Uncategorized
15th February took me to the Remix Play conference at the University of Coventry’s Distributive Media Learning Lab. The one-day conference explored how playfulness could improve higher education, and provide a better learning experience for students. The day was both...
by Ben Ross | 9 Feb 2017 | Uncategorized
In fact, it’s a single word: “Experiment”! A startup isn’t a business. Sorry. Not yet! A startup is a time-limited vehicle for finding out whether an idea has legs, and whether you’re the one to make it work. So in a startup, especially at an early stage, it’s really...
by Ben Ross | 6 Feb 2017 | Uncategorized
The unwillingness of many of the (few) scholars of play to put forward a definition of play frustrates me a little. Perhaps this is because I studied philosophy at university – a subject that is pretty obsessed with definitions and their importance in shaping how we...
