Play as the mother of invention

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Why Play Works.

Lucy Taylor and Tzuki Stewart

17 episodes

2 days ago

Do you have a niggling feeling, a secret hope, that work could be more joyful, more fun and (maybe) a little bit wilder? Do you sense deep down that doing great work doesn't need to be a slog? In Why Play Works, Lucy Taylor and Tzuki Stewart hear the stories of people who are radically reshaping the idea of work as play - from play practitioners to academics to organisations who take play seriously. How can working on serious problems be fun and delightful? Is play the opposite of work, or is it actually how we unlock success? How can reconnecting to our playfulness create more fulfilling and enlivening experiences of work? We investigate how we can harness the power of play to boost resilience, improve well-being and foster collaboration, connection and creativity in the way we work.

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Play as the mother of invention

Why Play Works.

45 minutes 34 seconds

3 years ago

Play as the mother of invention

There are alternatives to PowerPoint, and to playing Devil’s Advocate. Filling a space with foosball tables and slides doesn’t inherently make a space “playful”. Joining Lucy to discuss how play forms the basis for so much of their creativity, are Brendan Boyle and Michelle Lee-Schmidt from global design form IDEO.

Brendan is the founder of the IDEO Play Lab, adjunct professor at Stanford, board member of the National Institute of Play and an award-winning author of the Klutz Book of Inventions. Michelle is Managing Director of IDEO's Play Lab, where she leads an integrated research design and development team, bringing engaging, interactive, and playful experiences to market.

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What some think of as flow or engagement is, in fact, play.
Play can be a superpower that helps us take on the world.
We don’t need to seek permission to play as much as we assume we might.
There are other roles we can play in meetings, aside from Devil’s Advocate.

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