‘Play… is something fundamentally larger than the individual player or their mental state; it is a pattern of movement that surpasses both the players, and is something to which both players belong.’ (p32) Vilhauer, M. 2017. Gadamer’s Ethics of Play: Hermeneutics and the Other. Plymouth: Lexington.
How to get the group to interact with an object that transcends cultural, subject, race, gender and any other boundaries, enabling the group to experience others learning through the object? Reflecting my proposed object, any proposed interaction had to be universal, I thought of play. Often viewed as childish, it is an invaluable ubiquitous tool for interlinking groups, allowing them to make sense of the world relating to Hegel’s ideas on education means the ‘ability to see things from the point of view of the other‘. Maybe it could also be fun, let’s see?
Takss with Stage 1 cohort
Task 1 – individual response
‘Memories are motionless, and the more securely they are fixed in Space, the sounder they are’ Gaston Bachelard The Poetics of Space 1958
Task 2 – work in pairs
Task 3 – work as a group
Incentives?
want to see tutors first design work
Bibliography
- Bachelard, G., Danielewski, M. Z. (Contributor), & Jolas, M. (Translator). (2014). The Poetics of Space. Paperback edition. Penguin.