I am Water
Introduction
There is some stuff lying on the floor of the classroom.
Lego
Where’s Waldo? Books
Magic Eye Books
Dominos
Magnets + Links
Parquetry Blocks
Imaginarium Train Set + Thomas the Tank Engine
Play!! Yes, you.
Discussion #1
- Did you get bored?
- Did you lose sense of time at any point?
- Did anything become too difficult at any time?
- What did you do at such times?
What is Flow?
We will understand Flow from:
- The book Flow and the Psychology of Happiness, pp; 72-76; by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. First, let us learn to say his name!!
Here is the book.
- This video:
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This TED Talk : Flow, the Secret to Happiness
3. This is Water: David Foster Wallace’s famous Talk:
4. Let us quickly read and discuss this extract from the Play and Playground Encyclopedia https://www.pgpedia.com/m/man-play-and-games
Discussion #2
- Is the idea of Flow elusive?
- Do only some people get it, and then only at some times?
- Was David Foster Wallace’s talk somewhat self-deluding?
- Then what is this Empathy stuff we talk about when we speak of Design Thinking?
Pop Quix: Want still more Flow?
No, that is not a bad spelling….why not?
Go find me in this picture !! 
References
Scott Eberle, “The Aspects of Play” https://www.journalofplay.org/sites/www.journalofplay.org/files/pdf-articles/6-2-article-elements-of-play.pdf
“Platform Creativity: Domain, Field, and Person”. https://medium.com/call4/domain-8a22b6b486f4
8 Ways To Create Flow According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. https://positivepsychology.com/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-father-of-flow/
Ian Bogost, “Play at Anything”.