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The NCRM invited Dr Kate Cowan and John Potter 💙 to deliver a workshop at their 2019 Summer School focusing on the participatory, multimodal, ethnographic research of Playing the Archive. View the session slides here ncrm.ac.uk/training/Summe…

Excited to be speaking at this V&A conference ‘Future Museums: Play and Design’ with Jackie Marsh, sharing our work on Playing the Archive and MakEY amongst a fantastic line-up of speakers. 19th November 2019 vam.ac.uk/event/GdjX8xn6…

Fantastic free conference celebrating 60 years of ‘The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren’ by Iona and Peter Opie, and launching the digitised online Opie archive developed as part of the Playing the Archive project. 15th November, Oxford University Press. eventbrite.com/e/60-years-of-…

Digital Futures Commission/ 5Rights Foundation blog featuring Prof Andrew Burn on play. digitalfuturescommission.org.uk/blog/interview…

Our colleague on the Play Observatory Dr Kate Cowan speaks about the importance and status of play at the @5rightsfound launch of the #digitalfutures Commission with Sonia Livingstone Ann Phoenix and Chris Bateman UCL Knowledge Lab See 5rightsfoundation.com for more information...

Another kind of play! And a worthy cause ...

Did you hear John Potter 💙 and Dr Kate Cowan on BBC Radio 4 over Christmas sharing spooky stories from the Playing the Archive project? The documentary ‘The Green Lady in the Toilets’ is still available on catch-up bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Nice to see advance publicity from Routledge Books for my new book “Literature, Videogames and Learning”, with reviews from Henry Jenkins, James Gee, Ian Bogost and Catherine Beavis (thanks, all!). routledge.com/Literature-Vid…

Follow our new project on play in lockdown in pandemic times and contribute to our survey and archive Play Observatory blog at play-observatory.com

My new book on literature and games is published today, representing a good 10 years of research. Thanks to Ian Bogost Henry Jenkins and Catherine Beavis for kind blurbs! UCL Knowledge Lab Stella Wisdom @AndrewG87449624 Robert Eaglestone routledge.com/Literature-Vid…

We’re changing our name (but keeping all our friends of course!). Read our About page to see why. darecollaborative.net/about/

Read our post about the Videogame Rromok at the V&A , created by our new colleague Jelena Viskovic and design collective Rites Network - visit the V&A and play the game! Jelena Viskovic darecollaborative.net/2021/09/15/rro…

Read our post on ReMAP member Dr Hakan Ergül’s work with @unicef-supported community arts project with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. darecollaborative.net/2021/08/31/eff…

Inspiring talk UCL Knowledge Lab intellectual life session by Dr Kate Cowan on the Play Observatory project about play during the pandemic. Play finds its way round the lockdown constraints with bear caves and snake houses!

Read our post about Sara Hawley’s latest article Doing sociomaterial studies: the Circuit of Agency, in Learning, Media & Technology. And of course, follow through to the article! darecollaborative.net/2021/10/22/doi…

Happy winter festival to all our members, friends and colleagues UCL IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society UCL Knowledge Lab and beyond. We look forward to more great projects and collaboration in 2022.

The MEA is pleased to support the launch of a new book by Cary Bazalgette ; "How toddlers learn the secret language of the movies". Click on the link below to attend the launch at BFI Southbank, 5.30pm, 22nd June eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…

Carol Barron quoting brilliant Julia Bishop ‘s work in opening keynote @cathbannister1 Dr Yinka Olusoga Playing the Archive Play Observatory problematising attitudes to children’s game traditions and ‘passive’ handing down…#childinthecitydublin2022 @Childinthecity

Excited to see that the Time Telephone (phone up children’s games from the Opie archives - from our project Playing the Archive) has arrived in the Connected Environments Lab at UCL East campus - thanks to Valerio Signorelli