Comments on: systematic play - jason pott’s question

By: jaz

jaz — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:38:10 +0000

that was my best shot! ha! ;)

By: Bumskills

Bumskills — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:39:38 +0000

quote - “So then what can we do to create not an impossible smooth utopia but a stimulating playground for us?”

write a funny blog and stimulate our giggle-bones

By: jaz

jaz — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:22:44 +0000

indeed. i look forward to reading about your risk system - especially you’re one of the few who can make me excited about reading something about economy ;)!

By: jason potts

jason potts — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:58:35 +0000

Interesting thoughts jaz,

My point was specifically about whether the economics and innovation concepts of an ‘innovation system’ could be applied in your context as a ‘play system’. (I’m interested in this because I’ve been working on the concept of a ‘risk system’ as a way of thinking about how individual risk taking preferences and capabilities fit into a broader organizational and institutional system.

Your point about the need for a ‘play space’ and the tendency of humans to create that ’space’ continually to me does indicate precisely the notion of a play system. It may be the case that cultural studies and sociology have their own term sand langauge for this phenomenon, while economics, innovation and technology studies has another, yet I do think we are all talking about the same thing.