Play, Happiness, Imagination, Learning
Description: Hello and welcome! I'm Philip Minchin, a consultant on and advocate for play, games, creativity, community, and learning, with a substantial side of strategic thinking about the future of libraries. For the last few years, I've been working as a cultural consultant to bridge the gap between the library world and some of the less…
Hello and welcome! I’m Philip Minchin, a consultant on and advocate for play, games, creativity, community, and learning, with a substantial side of strategic thinking about the future of libraries.
For the last few years, I’ve been working as a cultural consultant to bridge the gap between the library world and some of the less bibliocentric forms of geekery (though I love my books too!).
In particular, I’ve been advocating for games and play as essential parts of culture, particularly in a library context. (For an outline of why I hold this view, read this series on games I wrote for the International Games Day @ your library blog, and this follow-up series on play .) I’ve also been exploring new opportunities for libraries in the online world, moving from the old one-way, broadcast models of publishing to more two-way, networked ones. And I’ve been writing and designing for games, both ele
Play, Happiness, Imagination, Learning