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Power of Play: How Play and Its Games Shape Life
Power of Play is a deep exploration into a small word with huge effects.
It reframes what you might think childish into the driving energy behind imagination, creativity, and the mesh of forms we call culture. Travelling back through evolution and the blooming of ideas, the story traces play from the smallest cogs of the mind, through childhood, education and work, to the global games of today, and the infinite possibility of tomorrow.
Featuring exclusive contributions from some of the world's most influential creatives, and filled with over 380 illustrations, this is a psychological and philosophical journey around our only real super-power.
Expect to see play, and what it offers, in a whole new light.
It reframes what you might think childish into the driving energy behind imagination, creativity, and the mesh of forms we call culture. Travelling back through evolution and the blooming of ideas, the story traces play from the smallest cogs of the mind, through childhood, education and work, to the global games of today, and the infinite possibility of tomorrow.
Featuring exclusive contributions from some of the world's most influential creatives, and filled with over 380 illustrations, this is a psychological and philosophical journey around our only real super-power.
Expect to see play, and what it offers, in a whole new light.
351 pages, Paperback
Published July 3, 2021
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February 21, 2022
Like Brian Eno, I think every parent, teacher and politician should read this book. As well as every other literate entity out there. And they should read it to every non-literate entity. Or perform it in crouch formations and human pyramids whilst playing musical chairs with 100 strangers.
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