Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Kevin Egan - Importance of Play

Play is Crucial to a Creative Act - Thinking restricts our creative way of working.

Steve Pinker - Associations with Difference

Otherness - Allows us to have the ability to make associations (eg Semiotics)

Allen Kaprow just does, plays with material and is less concern with the idea of refinement

The metaphor is therefore derived from something other than itself

The reciprocal process is both LOGICAL and ILLOGICAL

Criticisms of play

Play is wasteful  and subordinate to both thinking and theory, work is favoured over play as it is ORDERED

Order is desired over chaos

Benefits of Play in Practice as Research:

It is a representation of the minds unconcious process

Play is not about having an end goal, it will present itself naturally

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