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Puzlkind – the Healing Potential of Jigsaws
When a film curator wrote me a letter describing how said puzzle helped her through chemotherapy I was thrilled. I began to make mini-puzzles […]
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Pizza KATA or “Change is a Mindset and not an Action”
Sometimes it is not easy to make experiments, because we need realistic, failsafe and quick situations. Here is where games could support people […]
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Change: a Game of Probabilities and Behaviours
Based on experience, our behaviour will be heavily biased for, or against the recently announced organisational change initiative at our place of work. […]
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Games and Gamification as a tool for Social Change
Games make a difference, today more than ever. When people play, they get inspired and open to learn new things while interacting with each other. […]
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Behavioural Change through Transformational Games
Cultural change is deeply behavioural, if you want a new culture, it means you have to define a new way of being, starting with changing individual behaviour […]
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Unlock Behaviour Change with Games-based Learning
One of the most challenging aims of games-based learning is behavioural change. How can a game-based experience affect the long-term behaviour of players? […]
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Dementia: changing attitudes with a game.
The Dementia Awareness Game is a digital game that improves knowledge of dementia and attitudes to people living with dementia. […]
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What is Player Agency in Games?
Player agency is about giving our players the time, space, and resources to make decisions in games. But is that is the only thing that agency gives to players? […]
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Round-up of Playful Creative Summit 2021
David Chislett talks about the Experience of running the second Playful Creative Summit, and how the vision for this event is developing. […]
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Four Reasons Game-Based Learning Makes Corporate Training Better
Game-based Learning has the ability to build strong associations with reality – a direct correlation with how you may deal with similar situations in real life. […]
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Board games for participatory research
One of the objectives of this project was to increase dietary autonomy and promote traditional knowledge associated with biodiversity of indigenous peoples. […]
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Focus on… Theory of Change
If you’ve ever been involved in a change initiative, chances are, somewhere along the line, you have come across a kind of ‘magical thinking’ whereby those proposing the changes miss out many of the details […]
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Review of Designing Games and Gamification for Learning
If you wanted to be able to explain the pedagogical value of games and gamification, then this book would work extremely well. […]
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Digital Games as Roadmaps to Meaningful and Powerful Change
This was not one of those stories in which I got an excellent grade by being creative and resourceful. But it was, for all purposes, my first world. […]
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Leisuring from Home: The Future of Social Life, Entertainment, and Culture?
“All of man’s misfortune comes from one thing, which is not knowing how to sit quietly in a room.” – Pascal, Pensées (1670) “The only good thing for man is to be diverted so that […]