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Rules can create an imaginary, transient world that is actually more playful than your everyday gathering. That is because everyone realizes that the rules are temporary and is, therefore, willing to obey them.

Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

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“And Suits offers the following definition of what it is to play a game. He says, “To play a game is to voluntarily take on unnecessary obstacles for the sake of making possible the activity of overcoming them.” …

And the way I think of [games] sometimes, after S

Seriousness saddles the work with a burden. It misses the playful side of being human. The chaotic exuberance of being present in the world. The lightness of pure enjoyment for enjoyment’s sake. In play, there are no stakes. No boundaries. No right or wrong. No quotas for productivity. It’s an uninhibited state where your spirit can run free.

Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Whether it refers to people, places, or societies, liminality provides a playground for transformation, a game with no rules we’re all invited to join, a sandbox for liminal creativity.

Ness Labs • Liminal Creativity

Games can therefore be understood as imagination infrastructures—engines for imaginative engagement. There are so many games out there these days, endless virtual worlds, that the utopian potential of this medium to break far beyond the limited possibilities for collective imagination in “normal” society also seems endless.

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Rahel Aima • Imagination Infrastructuring for Real and Virtual Worlds

Yeah, I made up a word. I didn’t misspell lucidity .

Ludicity is the ludic quality of an embodied behavior or modality. In this case, text-toy making. You’re allowed to make up words if you’re in the business, just as Lego engineers are allowed to make up new parts.

Texts as Toys

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase “the play of ideas” and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play. —JULIA CAMERON

Alisa Vitti • In the FLO

In his book Les jeux et les hommes (Man, Play and Games), French sociologist and esteemed translator of Borges Roger Caillois analyzes human play and draws a distinction between games that emerge spontaneously, or paideia (from Greek pais, child), and games with clear rules, or ludus, from Latin, fun games, from which we get the word ludic. The lat