Serious Play

There are lots of similarities between Design and Play, let’s see how the expert says –

• Play is “the only opportunity for humans to fully develop their humanity by setting free the two aspects of its double nature: sensation and thought” – Johan Friedrich von Schiller

• “ Culture arises in the form of play, it is played from the very beginning. Civilization is, in its earliest phases, played, it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.” – Johan Huizinga

• “Objects are initiators: they are infinitely faster culture mediators than ideas, as powerful producers of fantasy as “situations”. “ – Roland Barthes

• “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw

• “If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.” – Jean Piaget

• “The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression.” – Brian Sutton-Smith.

• “Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.” – Roger von Oech

• “Order is reason’s pleasure, disorder is imagination’s delight.” – Paul Claudel

• “You can discover more about a person in an hour of plan than in a year of conversation.” – Plato

• “Design is your left brain and your right brain having sex.” – Anonymous

• “Play is the highest form or research.” – Albert Einstein

• “Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.” – Abraham Maslow

• “In urge for experiences through self motivated activities and behaviour at one’s discretion and will.” – Mathieu Gielen

• “Design is a line trying to make a point.” – Yours Truly

• “Beyond its environmental imperative sustainable design will have to be engaging, challenging rewarding, absorbing, non-frustrating, and of repeat experience value … The future of design will have to integrate Play as a central criterion into any relevant method for innovation.”- Alex Manu Tool Toys.