The Infinite Playground: A Player's Guide to Imagination (Paperback)

BEGINNING BEFORE THE BEGINNING xi
Foreword: Press Play xi
Celia Pearce
Introduction: Editing Bernie xvi
Holly Gramazio
What-if-ing xix
Rocky De Koven
INTRODUCTORY 1
Pre-posthumous 1
The University of Imagination 5
Something to Play: Prui 7
Imagining a New World 11
Jesper Juul
Every Now and Then 12
Lee Rush
A Million Ways to Play with Bernie, at Least 14
Gonzalo Frasca
THE FUNDAMENTALS OF PLAY 17
Something to Play: Reception Line 17
Occupy Fun 19
Occupy Play 21
Something to Play: J Accuse 23
The Well-Played Game 25
Having Fun Together 28
Something to Play: Tag 30
Changing the Game 31
When Can We Play? 33
Getting People Playing 35
Something to Play: Eclipse 36
After You ve Played 38
Imagination and Possibility 39
Something to Play: Sound Travel 41
Compassion for the Play of Others 43
Sebastian Quack
A Lifetime of Play 45
Frank Lantz
Girls Own This Playground 48
Katie Salen Tekinba
THE PRIVATE IMAGINATION 51
Strengthening the Imagination 51
Something to Play: Silly You and Serious You 52
Something to Play: Walking Games 55
Failure of the Imagination 57
Something to Play: Blather 59
Flowing with Imagination 61
Something to Play: Making Faces 63
The Imagined Audience 64
Something to Play: The Orchestra and the Conductor 67
Slow Play 70
Tracy Fullerton
Ever Since 73
Adriaan de Jongh
Roll with It 74
Greg Trefry
THE SHARED IMAGINATION 77
Something to Play: Darkroom 78
The Collective Imagination 80
Coliberation 82
Something to Play: Group Blather 87
Of Me and We 89
Something to Play: Signifying Nothing 92
Risking Coliberation 95
Something to Play: Moving Pictures for the Community Theater 97
Encouraging Coliberation 99
Something to Play: Zen Counting 101
Something to Play: Handland 102
Tilt-Mate 104
Ian Bogost
Focus on the Fun 106
Zack Wood
Play Sets Us Free! 108
Stephen Conway
Come Out & Play 110
Catherine Herdlick
THE WORKING IMAGINATION 113
Something to Play: Singing Blather 114
Daydreams and Doodles 115
Something to Play: Drawing Together 116
Imagination and Creativity 118
Making Imagination Real 119
Something to Play: Foley a Capella 122
Imagination and Science 123
Strengthening the Group Imagination 126
Why Imagine? 127
Something to Play: The Label Game 129
Play, Imagination, and Business 131
Something to Play: The Orchestra Game 133
Enter the Dragon 136
Mary Flanagan
Coliberation 139
Douglas Wilson
Like Many of My Generation 141
Akira Thompson
BEING IN THE WORLD 143
Imagination s Role in Creating the World 143
Something to Play: The Blather Chorale 145
The Ecological Imagination 147
Something to Play: Ways of Bee-ing 148
The Compassionate Imagination 150
Something to Play: There Must Be a Good Reason 153
The Moral Imagination 154
Having Fun Together 157
Something to Play: Passing Humanity 158
Imagination and Endings 160
We, the Prui . . . 163
Colleen Macklin
Stepping Aside 165
John Sharp
A Lightening 166
Tassos Stevens
A LACK OF CONCLUSION 169
Quitting Is Heavenly 172
Elyon De Koven
Afterword 174
Eric Zimmerman
FURTHER READING 177
CONTRIBUTORS 183