Infinite Playground
Infinite Playground A play-centered invitation to experience the power and delight unlocked by imagination.Bernard De Koven (1941-2018) was a pioneering designer of games and theorist of fun. For De…
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Infinite Playground
A play-centered invitation to experience the power and delight unlocked by imagination.Bernard De Koven (1941-2018) was a pioneering designer of games and theorist of fun. For De Koven, games could not be reduced to artifacts and rules; they were about a sense of transcendent fun. He studied games long before the field of game studies existed.
The Infinite Playground extends a play-centered invitation to experience the power and delight unlocked by imagination. This book, his last, is about the imagination: the imagination as a playground, a possibility space, and a gateway to wonder. It offers a curriculum for playful learning.De Koven guides the readers through a series of observations and techniques, interspersed with games.
He begins with the fundamentals of play, and proceeds through the private imagination, the shared imagination, and imagining the