RSA Working Late - Serious Play

The topic of the brief I have chosen is increasing physical activity in the workplace for all throughout their lives.

I'm a big kid at heart and really believe that your never really need to grow up and loose the inquisitive, free, fearless feeling that we all have through childhood. I have lost count of the number of times I've been told that I'm daft for just having fun and not giving a damn what people think of me.

Playing in a park is just as fun at 2 years old as it is at 22. Who says when your too old to still go out partying or too old to splash in puddles.

Not only is it great fun and a release from the seriousness of adult life but there is evidence that play has emotional, physical and psychological benefits to adults as well as children.

Stuart Brown in the above Ted talk SOME OF MY NOTES

Notes social play/rough and tumble play/spectator ritual play/imaginative solo play/ story telling/

rats- play creates survivors.
homer simpson- play deprivation - couch potatoes- don't develop brains properly

The opposite of play is not work its depression
Play signals- facial, gestural

NEOTENY- humans are the most playful of all creatures into adult life

From play to innovation - d.school stanford - crazy suit thing that you can take your meeting back to your iffice..boiler suit that is written on