A Playful Path - Couverture souple

De Koven, Bernard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1304351823 ISBN 13 : 9781304351821

Editeur : Lulu.com, 2013

Synopsis

A Playful Path, the new book by games guru and fun theorist Bernard De Koven, serves as a collection of ideas and tools to help us bring our playfulness back into the open. When we find ourselves forgetting the life of the game or the game of life, the joy of form or the content, the play of brain or mind, body or spirit, this book can help us return to that which our soul is heir.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Playfulness isn’t an achievement, it’s a gift. And that gift comes to those who choose to receive it. Even though I rigorously claim that “playful path is the shortest road to happiness,” it often happens that we don’t choose to be playful. We could, but we don’t. Maybe we’re not happy enough. Maybe some perverse part of ourselves is having more fun being miserable. But even the best of us, even the most professionally playful of us, forget to be playful. And even though we have the choice and we know we have the choice, we simply can’t get ourselves to play. We can’t act playfully, or feel playful or be playful. This book serves as a reminder, as a guide, as a tool to help you find your own playful path, to help you help others find theirs. It's designed so that you can read it from cover to cover, or just open it anywhere, just to see what comes up, just for the fun of it. Bernard DeKoven has been exploring playfulness for more than 45 years. His book, The Well-Played Game, originally served to help guide people who had discover the power of play through the New Games Foundation. Today it serves designers of videogames who also want to share the power of play through their new games and new visons of playfulness. There's much more on his website - deepfun.com

Biographie de l'auteur

In 1971, Bernard De Koven founded The Games Preserve, a retreat center for the exploration of games and play in Eastern Pennsylvania. The Games Preserve served many organizations and individuals, and functioned as the East Coast branch of The New Games Foundation. In 1978, DeKoven published The Well-Played Game, which is currently being re-released by MIT Press. During his long career, he has designed games of all kinds: board and table games, computer games, social games for small and large groups, city-wide game celebrations, theater games, games for couples, families, children and elders. But his greatest impact has been his development of a theory of fun and playfulness and how it can impact every aspect of personal and interpersonal, community and institutional health.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lulu.com
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1304351823
• ISBN 13: 9781304351821
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: HACHETTE LIVRE SA; https://www.hachette.fr/; ; 1 AVENUE GUTENBERG; MAUREPAS CEDEX; 78319; France