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Serious (geo) play, or 'why we need to be open ...

Serious (geo) play, or 'why we need to be open to innovate'

AGI Geocommunity Soapbox presentation, September 2009

http://www.agi.org.uk/

Andrew Larcombe

September 23, 2009
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  1. 2 “the true creator is necessity, who is the mother

    of our invention” Plato, The Republic 360BC
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  4. 5 Play Is Not The Opposite Of Work The Big

    Idea The domain of play is engaging with new ideas, doing interesting stuff, exploring possibilities. In short, innovation and discovery (where’s the geo...?)
  5. 6 “[the child]...takes his play very seriously, expending a large

    amount of emotion on it.” Sigmund Freud, Creative Writers and Daydreaming (where’s the geo...?) “It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.” Michel de Montaigne Johan Huzinger, Homo Ludens (man the player) 1938 Not A New Idea
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