There is a companion article here on Medium - https://medium.com/p/fba6ce3d1ed6 My Talk from Playful 2013, held at the Conway Hall in London, put on by Mudlurk. The theme for the day was Playing With Form, so I talked about putting things in things, and thinking about the boxes rather than the things we try and squeeze into them. More than ever, these slides make less sense without the narration, so I shall endeavour to record and add that when I can...

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PLAYFUL
CONWAY HALL
LONDON
51.5189° N, 0.1189° W
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3. WHAT’S IN
THE BOX..?
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7. A STOMP
BOX FOR THE
INTERNET
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8. WHY? I’M NOT SURE YET...
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9. IT’S FINE
NOT TO
KNOW.
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11. WE WERE TAUGHT
THAT BOXES HAD
CONSTRAINTS
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12. “ASSUME THERE ARE
ONLY TWO PEOPLE
IN THE MARKET”
EDGEWORTH-BOWLEY BOX
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13. “ASSUME THERE ARE
ONLY TWO PEOPLE
IN THE MARKET”
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14. MEDIA: JUST A SERIES OF BOXES
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15. CONSTRAINED BY SPACE
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16. CONSTRAINED BY SPACE
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17. BOXES TO BE FILLED
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18. ALWAYS
CONSTRAINTS
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20. YET WE DEFER TO THE
BOXES BEING ‘RIGHT’
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21. “ WE SHOULD BE THINKING
OUTSIDE THE BOX...”
SOURCE: SHUTTERCOCK.COM
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22. LET’S PLAY
WITH THE
BOXES
INSTEAD...
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24. A BIG
BOX OF
ART
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25. CUBISM
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26. CUBISM
“FULL OF
LITTLE
CUBES”
ART CRITIC
LOUIS VAUXCELLES ON
GEORGES BRAQUES
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27. CUBISM
BORN IN WORLD
OF RADIO
TRANSMISSIONS
AND X-RAYS
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28. PICASSO AND
BRAQUE:
”CONFRONTED
THE MEANING OF
TECHNOLOGIES
THROUGH
PAINT”
MARK STONE
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29. CONFRONT
THE BOXES
WHAT ARE
THEY?
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30. “ MEDIA IS A
VEHICLE FOR
KNOWLEDGE”
CESAR HIDALGO, MIT MEDIA LAB
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31. “ MEDIA IS THE
CONNECTIVE TISSUE
”
OF SOCIETY
CLAY SHIRKY, NYU
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32. “
MEDIA IS
HYBRID
JUST LIKE BUILDINGS, DEVICES,
SPACES, EVENTS ETC
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DAN HILL, FABRICA
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33. TISSUE
VEHICLE
HYBRID
CONNECTIVE OBJECTS
THAT
MEDIA: TRANSFER KNOWLEDGE
THROUGH
TIME AND SPACE
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34. HOW DO WE PLAY WITH
BOXES LIKE THAT?
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35. MAKING
THE NETWORK
PHYSICAL
JAMES BRIDLE
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37. “ATOMS ARE HARD”
DAN WILLIAMS
@IAMDANW
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38. ATOMS ARE ALSO DENSE
(BREATHTAKINGLY DENSE)
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39. EVEN REFORMED, THEY’RE NOT CERTAIN
WHAT THEY ARE, OR WANT TO BE
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40. TWO PROJECTS
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45. ARTEFACT CARDS WORK
IN SPACE AND TIME
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AUSTIN KLEON, STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST

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48. ARTEFACT IOS APP
BY ADAM HOYLE, DARRELL WHITELAW & JOHN V WILLSHIRE
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51. OF THE INTERNET, BUT
NOT ON THE INTERNET
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52. SOMETHING HARDER...
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56. THE KEY TO LEADERSHIP
THOMAS FORSYTH , FRASER HAMILTON, CHRIS THORPE & JOHN V WILLSHIRE
FOR SAID BUSINESS SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
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58. RECREATING
A SPACE TO
RETURN TO IN
THE FUTURE
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59. A TACTILE MEMORY...
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60. +
+ +
+
...WITH UNLIMITED SPACE
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61. A BOX THAT’S BIGGER ON THE INSIDE
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“THE PAST SHOULD BE
ALTERED BY THE PRESENT AS
MUCH AS THE PRESENT IS
DIRECTED BY THE PAST”
T S ELIOT
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63. PLAY WITH
TIME AND
SPACE
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64. DON’T ASK WHAT IS
MOST APPROPRIATE...
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65. ...ASK WHEN IS IT APPROPRIATE
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66. A TIME FOR EVERYTHING, AND
EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT TIME
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67. THANK YOU
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