{"id":2460,"date":"2009-11-29T12:25:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T20:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2009-11-29T12:25:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T20:25:22","slug":"four-freedoms-of-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/four-freedoms-of-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Four freedoms of play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deepfun.com\/2009\/11\/four-freedoms-of-play.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Funlog+%28Bernie+DeKoven%27s+FunLog%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Bernie DeKoven, funsmith: Four freedoms of play<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scot Osterweil (MIT Comparative Media Studies, Education Arcade Project) has observed this truth: play has no agenda. Freedom is central to the experience of play. To understand the anatomy of play, Scot has identified four components that he calls the &#8220;four freedoms of play.&#8221; If these freedoms are not respected, the play experience is severely compromised or even ruined.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Freedom to Experiment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The player&#8217;s motivations are entirely intrinsic and personal. The process is open-ended.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Freedom to Fail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Losing is part of the process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Freedom to Try on Different Identities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Players aren&#8217;t necessarily limited by their bodies or surrounding physical context.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Freedom of Effort<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As described in Peter and Iona Opie&#8217;s classic ethnography of playground culture, children may scramble around in a game of tag, avoiding being caught for twenty minutes, and then suddenly stop and allow themselves to be tagged once they have reached a certain degree of effort or perhaps want to move on to another activity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Useful rules for everything from setting up improv exercises to doing rapid prototyping of new ideas and products.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From \u00a0Bernie DeKoven, funsmith: Four freedoms of play: Scot Osterweil (MIT Comparative Media Studies, Education Arcade Project) has observed this truth: play has no agenda. Freedom is central to the experience of play. To understand the anatomy of play, Scot has identified four components that he calls the &#8220;four freedoms of play.&#8221; If these freedoms are not respected, the play experience is severely compromised or even ruined. Freedom to Experiment The player&#8217;s motivations are entirely intrinsic and personal. The process is open-ended. Freedom to Fail Losing is part of the process. Freedom to Try on Different Identities Players aren&#8217;t necessarily &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[44,34,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-flow","category-improv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-DG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}