Serious Play

  • Serious Play: Modern Clown Performance
    By Louise Peacock

    According to van Blerkom (1995), clown figures with healing functions can be found amongst the Yaqui and Mayo Indians of Sonora, the Iroquois and the Laguna Koshare. The resemblance between shamans and clown healers is clearest in their ...

  • Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies Simulate to Innovate
    By Michael Schrage

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  • Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America
    By Monica Obniski, Darrin Alfred

    A lively exploration of eclecticism, playfulness, and whimsy in American postwar design, including architecture, graphic design, and product design This spirited volume shows how postwar designers embraced whimsy and eclecticism in their ...

  • Serious Play: Literacy, Learning and Digital Games
    By Michael Dezuanni, Joanne O'Mara, Catherine Beavis

    Based on an original research project, the book explores digital games’ capacity to engage and challenge, present complex representations and experiences, foster collaborative and deep learning and enable curricula that connect with young ...

  • Serious Play: Modern Clown Performance
    By Louise Peacock

    Their clowns are used in the ways clowns are used in Traditional Circuses but look slightly different. The clown acts are incorporated ... The clowns then help load Matthew into the 'humanitarian cannon'. The small boy is asked if he ...

  • Serious Play: Literacy, Learning and Digital Games
    By Michael Dezuanni, Joanne O'Mara, Catherine Beavis

    Based on an original research project, the book explores digital games’ capacity to engage and challenge, present complex representations and experiences, foster collaborative and deep learning and enable curricula that connect with young ...

  • Serious Play: The Cultural Form of the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel
    By J. Jeffrey Franklin

    In Serious Play, J. Jeffrey Franklin examines the role of play in three areas—gambling, theatricality, and aesthetic theory—demonstrating in the process how the realist novel served as a vehicle for play while play in turn entered and ...

  • Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies Simulate to Innovate
    By Michael Schrage

    An examination of corporate innovation processes identifies the challenges presented by digital simulation technologies and explores the impact of prototyping and experimentation on corporate structures