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Notes on project AJI (part 2)

This is the sec­ond part of a post about AJI, a self-com­mis­­sioned research project about pub­lic protests. Read the first post or con­tin­ue read­ing below. Look­ing back on the talks we gave in the past few years, they’re obvi­ous­ly (and nat­u­ral­ly) prece­dents for what we’re doing with AJI now. I’m real­ly hap­py we’re return­ing to the […]

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Lessons from Knutepunkt 2013

Recent­ly I trav­eled to Nor­way. Not because they still had snow there, but because Knutepunkt 2013 was in the land of lakes, fjords and good fish. Knutepunkt is an event that is host­ed every year in a dif­fer­ent Nordic coun­try and serves as a get-togeth­­er for the Nordic larp scene, full of talks, work­shops, discussions […]

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Join us in Utrecht for FRIDAYS AT 7

So it’s time for a new thing, some­thing that will pos­si­bly turn into a irreg­u­lar­ly recur­ring get-togeth­­er for friends of the stu­dio. We’ve bor­rowed the name—FRIDAYS AT 7—from the drinks Urban­scale orga­nizes in NYC. With per­mis­sion, of course, as can be told from this exchange on Twit­ter: @kaeru Do what thou wilt shall be the […]

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Play some of our fave games at Tweetakt

I’ve blogged about Twee­t­akt before but now that con­struc­tion of the fes­ti­val pavil­ion is hap­pen­ing out­side our stu­dio win­dows I feel I should post a reminder. So this Fri­day, Twee­t­akt Fes­ti­val opens. I’ve select­ed a num­ber of games that will be playable for free at the pavil­ion for the full 10 days of the festival. […]

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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 […]

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Come over and play at Tweetakt

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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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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