by Mathias Poulsen | Friday, September 1, 2017 | Art & Culture
A while back, I was invited to train a group of instructors, who would be leading six play camps across branches of the Free Library of Philadelphia. “Teach them about play”, my friend Joel requested, and of course I immediately said yes. The training week...
by Mathias Poulsen | Tuesday, September 15, 2015 | Art & Culture
We’ve been fortunate enough to be a partner at the international Next Library 2015 conference, which has just taken place in the fantastic DOKK1 building here in Aarhus (where CounterPlay ’16 coincidentally also happens to play out next year). I was there...
by Mathias Poulsen | Saturday, April 19, 2014 | Art & Culture
At CounterPlay ’14, Jesper Krogh Kristiansen did a presentation about the way we write and talk about games. Traditionally, there’s been a heavy focus on technology when writing about video games, but this is not really what most people really care about...