Action Research Studio: Play & the Pursuit of the Unknown

Action Research, Play and Experience Design are closely aligned forms of co-operative/collaborative inquiry involving participatory methods. Each is concerned with investigating and designing experiences, immersive simulations, or even alternate realities. Each contributes valuable methods to the understanding of the appropriate methods for the pursuit of the unknown. This course explores the use of fusion methods across disciplines to create post-critical, speculative knowledge.

Tuesday 3 May 2011

FutureMed at Singularity University: How Will Technology Impact the Future of Healthcare and Medicine?

Exploring and driving the future of medicine through exponential, game changing technologies.

How will rapidly developing technologies such as the low cost genomic sequencing, artificial intelligence, telemedicine, robotics, 24/7 body wearable monitors, smart pills, stem cells, synthetic biology, gene therapy, mobile phone Apps and crowd sourced health data affect the future of healthcare and medicine?

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The Experience Design Group: Konstfack, Stockholm.

References: Play

Assorted play-related links
Boden, Margaret A. "Creativity and Conceptual Art"
Callois, Roger. Man, Play and Games (University of Illinois Press)
Elkind, David. The Power of Play (Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2007)
Goffman, Erving. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959)
Higgie, Jennifer (ed).The Artist's Joke (MIT Press)
Huizinga, Johan. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture (Beacon Press)
IDEO Method Cards
Janik, Allan “Theatre and Knowledge” in Dialogue, Skill, Tacit Knowledge (London: John Wiley and Sons, 2006).
Kane, Pat. The Play Ethic.
Lefaivre, Liane & Döll, Groud Up City-Play as a Design Tool (010 Publishers)
Manu, Alexander. Toys : Tools with an Element of Play (Danish Design Center)
Medler, Ben and Magerko, Brian “The Implications of Improvisational Acting and Role- Playing on Design Methodologies”.
Plant, Sadie. The most radical gesture: The Situationist International in a postmodern age (Routledge)
Salen, Katie & Zimmerman, Eric. Rules of Play. MIT
Sandler, Simon. Situationalist City (MIT Press)
Schenker, Richard “Towards a Poetics of Performance” from Performance Theory (London: Routledge, 2008).
Shrage, Michael. Serious Play. (Harvard, 2000)
Sutton-Smith, Brian. The Ambiguity of Play (Harvard University Press)
The Fluxus Performance Workbook
Thinkpak brainstorming card deck
UN Studio Design Models: Architecture Urbanism Infrastructure (Thames and Hudson, 2008)