Category: This Quarter in Play

This Quarter in Play: The (not so) secret language of playfulness

June 3, 2021 by Liz Allen

Part 1 – Play with the city “Say you don’t know me or recognize my face Say you don’t care who goes to that kind of place Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight Too many runaways eating up the night“ (Starship, 1985) The lyrics of the mid-eighties hit “we build this city” … Read more

This Quarter in Play: How Does Gamification Relate to Sustainable Consumption?

June 3, 2021January 31, 2021 by Liz Allen

Do you check your steps on your cellphone’s in-built health app and feel great when realizing you met the daily goal? Do you smile when your energy bill comes with a colorful graph showing your consumption is lower than the year before, and you’re doing better than your neighbors? Do you feel compelled to slow … Read more