Between 2006 and 2008 I was Domain Manager for Domain Play at the Technical University in Eindhoven. This domain, one of the four domains in the Bachelor's phase (health, home, work and play), used to be called Domain Entertainment. I set up a new programme and, together with the team of lecturer-coaches, I developed a series of new projects, workshops and lectures. The faculty board allowed me to rename the Domain and redefine the thematical point of departure. This lecture was one of three presentations meant to elucidate my ideas and curricular strategy. This lecture was the second of a series of four, given in September 2006.
18. “The words we use to describe play belong for the most part to aesthetics, terms with which we try to
describe the effects of beauty: tension, poise, balance, contrast, variation, solution, resolution. Play is
invested with the noblest qualities we are capable of perceiving in things: rhythm and harmony.”
Johan Huizinga (1872-1945)
Sunday, June 21, 2009
19. “The words we use to describe play belong for the most part to aesthetics, terms with which we try to
describe the effects of beauty: tension, poise, balance, contrast, variation, solution, resolution. Play is
invested with the noblest qualities we are capable of perceiving in things: rhythm and harmony.”
Johan Huizinga (1872-1945)
Sunday, June 21, 2009