Design for Living Complexities

develop key cognitive skills that are part of executive function.

The primary argument presented here is that if we conceptualize play as a mood, and if this mood can increase social learning and cultural adaptation, we must question why this mood is often repressed in adulthood. In the course of my research I came to describe my field site as a sacred playground. The place is especially meaningful to those who participate year after year, becoming experts in particular play practices, adopting the ethos of play that predominates in this community, and endeavoring to spread their ethos and practices to other locations

"Barbara's Story" = play in childhood and early adolescence with siblings/ in college, play defined as drinking and partying/ later in life, play defined as work or "filling" downtime/  scheduled vacations to play in the water at the beach/ hopefully in sport or hobby/

Another documentary from Gary Hustwit that inquires about how and why things in our lives came to be as they are now.