Playing the Archive

Our tribute to Iona Opie playingthearchive.net/2017/12/08/ion…

Excited to see that the Time Telephone (phone up children’s games from the Opie archives - from our project Playing the Archive) has arrived in the Connected Environments Lab at @UCLEast - thanks to @ValeSignorelli

Carol Barron quoting brilliant @JuliaCBishop ‘s work in opening keynote @cathbannister1 @YinkaOlusoga @playarchive @PlayObservatory problematising attitudes to children’s game traditions and ‘passive’ handing down…#childinthecitydublin2022 @Childinthecity1

The MEA is pleased to support the launch of a new book by @carybaz ; "How toddlers learn the secret language of the movies". Click on the link below to attend the launch at BFI Southbank, 5.30pm, 22nd June eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…

Happy winter festival to all our members, friends and colleagues @ucl @IOE_London @uclknowledgelab and beyond. We look forward to more great projects and collaboration in 2022.

Read our post about Sara Hawley’s latest article Doing sociomaterial studies: the Circuit of Agency, in Learning, Media & Technology. And of course, follow through to the article! darecollaborative.net/2021/10/22/doi…

Inspiring talk @uclknowledgelab intellectual life session by @katecowan on the @PlayObservatory project about play during the pandemic. Play finds its way round the lockdown constraints with bear caves and snake houses!

Read our post on ReMAP member Dr Hakan Ergül’s work with @unicef-supported community arts project with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. darecollaborative.net/2021/08/31/eff…

Read our post about the Videogame Rromok at the @V_and_A , created by our new colleague Jelena Viskovic and design collective @rites_network - visit the V&A and play the game! @nullinventories darecollaborative.net/2021/09/15/rro…

We’re changing our name (but keeping all our friends of course!). Read our About page to see why. darecollaborative.net/about/

My new book on literature and games is published today, representing a good 10 years of research. Thanks to @ibogost @henryjenkins and @BeavisCatherine for kind blurbs! @uclknowledgelab @miss_wisdom @AndrewG87449624 @BobEaglestone routledge.com/Literature-Vid…

Follow our new project on play in lockdown in pandemic times and contribute to our survey and archive @PlayObservatory blog at play-observatory.com

Did you hear @johnpp and @katecowan on BBC Radio 4 over Christmas sharing spooky stories from the @playarchive project? The documentary ‘The Green Lady in the Toilets’ is still available on catch-up bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Nice to see advance publicity from @routledgebooks for my new book “Literature, Videogames and Learning”, with reviews from Henry Jenkins, James Gee, Ian Bogost and Catherine Beavis (thanks, all!). routledge.com/Literature-Vid…

Another kind of play! And a worthy cause ...

Our colleague on the Play Observatory @katecowan speaks about the importance and status of play at the @5rightsfound launch of the #digitalfutures Commission with @Livingstone_S Ann Phoenix and Chris Bateman @uclknowledgelab See 5rightsfoundation.com for more information...

Digital Futures Commission/ 5Rights Foundation blog featuring Prof Andrew Burn on play. digitalfuturescommission.org.uk/blog/interview…

Fantastic free conference celebrating 60 years of ‘The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren’ by Iona and Peter Opie, and launching the digitised online Opie archive developed as part of the @playarchive project. 15th November, Oxford University Press. eventbrite.com/e/60-years-of-…

Excited to be speaking at this V&A conference ‘Future Museums: Play and Design’ with @jackiemarsh, sharing our work on @playarchive and @MakEY_Project amongst a fantastic line-up of speakers. 19th November 2019 vam.ac.uk/event/GdjX8xn6…

The @NCRMUK invited @katecowan and @johnpp to deliver a workshop at their 2019 Summer School focusing on the participatory, multimodal, ethnographic research of @playarchive. View the session slides here ncrm.ac.uk/training/Summe…