From my window I can see guys building the Tweetakt pavilion on the Neude square. They’ve started today. Next week, the festival starts. And I’m a little excited because this year I was asked by Tweetakt to curate the interactive exhibition that will be on display at the pavilion. Tweetakt is a festival for performing [...]
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Come over and play at Tweetakt
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Join us for Christmas drinks in Belgie
We’ll be heading to Kafe België this Friday (December 17 from 6pm) to celebrate the Wright Brothers making their first powered and heavier-than-air flight, the airing of the first episode of television series The Simpsons, an eventful and productive year at Hubbub with projects such as NU Grounds, the Learning Lab and of course PLAY [...]
Looking back on a serious symposium
Last week the KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy of Science) organized a symposium on serious games. Something we’re dealing with a lot right now, so we checked it out. Here’s some thoughts on what was talked about: David Shaffer was the first speaker. He made an interesting point: In order to learn by playing, the player [...]
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Join us for a game of Bocce Drift
So we have five sets of bocce balls lying around (or jeu de boules, as we like to call the game in the Netherlands). They’re left over from our little stint at NU Grounds. We were planning to run Bocce Drift there, but did not get around to it. So let’s play it anyway, in [...]
Games we ran at NU Grounds
On a scorchingly hot Saturday afternoon several agents of Hubbub descended on the Utrecht area of Leidsche Rijn to run a number of physical social games at the NU Grounds festival. We played a mix of games designed by students of the Utrecht School of the Arts and games taken from the excellent Ludocity website. [...]
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Join us for playful meanderings through Leidsche Rijn this saturday
I’ve always found neighborhoods under construction curious places. There is a strange tension between the place as planned and the place as executed and subsequently lived in. Leidsche Rijn is a new neighborhood being built in Utrecht (which is my hometown and also where Hubbub’s studio is located). When it is finished in 2025 it [...]
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Making cultural events more playful
These are sketches from a presentation that I delivered a while back to a room full of organizers of cultural events and creative agencies from Utrecht. This was the culmination of a study commissioned by the city of Utrecht, in which we looked at ways of adding playful elements to the programs of some of [...]
You’ll find us at Kunstgras 2010
On Wednesday 2 June you’ll find me at Kunstgras 2010; an event where creative entrepreneurs from the Utrecht area and beyond meet and exchange ideas. The We Love Creatief Utrecht book, which includes an interview myself, will be presented there as well. (Many thanks to Karel Millenaar of FourceLabs for making that happen.) It’s not often that [...]
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Looking back on playful Tweetakt 2011
I’ve just uploaded a set of photos taken at the opening of the playful Tweetakt 2011 exhibition. As you may recall, I was asked to curate an interactive addition to this youth theatre festival. The works I selected are in my opinion all wonderful examples of the way play can lead to performance. Each was [...]