by Ben Ross | 7 Sep 2017 | Play Philosophy
My friend got married recently, so the night before we drank lots, played some party games, listened to music and generally had an evening devoted to letting down our hair and to Play. It might seem a strange question to ask, but this got me thinking about what the...
by Ben Ross | 17 Aug 2017 | Play Philosophy
I hear a lot that play is for other people. Of course, the most common refrain is that play is for children, not the adults who expound this maxim. But I also get it about lots of other groups. “It’s what parents do,” I hear from childless worker bees. “I imagine...
by Ben Ross | 13 Jul 2017 | Play Philosophy
I find the way that people don’t generally think of activities as ‘Play’ quite strange. People are very happy to say that they are ‘at work’, but they’ll rarely describe themselves as ‘playing’ – except as a description of messing about or trying something new. But...
by Ben Ross | 6 Jul 2017 | Play Philosophy
We’re living in an age with extraordinary change occurring in the workplace. While we’re all very aware of the downsides of automation and job losses, some are asking whether it has to be all negative. For generations people have asked when the propensity for...