Sökning: "playfulness"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 26 avhandlingar innehållade ordet playfulness.
1. Playing at Work : Organizational Play as a Facilitator of Creativity
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates how play may benefit creativity in organizational contexts. Play and playfulness have previously been linked to creativity in children and adults, but empirical organizational research is scarce. A widely accepted definition of creativity is that it involves the production of something that is both novel and appropriate. LÄS MER
2. From wolf to dog: Behavioural evolution during domestication
Sammanfattning : Biologists since Darwin have recognized that domestication, where species are selected to live in human-controlled environments, exerts strong selection on organisms and dramatically impacts their evolutionary trajectories. Across domesticated mammal species, characteristic morphological, physiological and behavioural changes occur simultaneously, as correlated traits, a phenomenon known as the domestication syndrome. LÄS MER
3. "Vi vill bli hörda!" : En studie om communityteater med unga tjejer och platsen som aktör
Sammanfattning : The subject of this study is a community theatre for, with and by girls aged 13–17. The theatre practice is situated within the field of applied theatre and as a communitarian practice engages with artistic, social and political ambitions by staging the everyday of marginalised people. LÄS MER
4. Designing Public Play : Playful Engagement, Constructed Activity, and Player Experience
Sammanfattning : This thesis sets out to explore why people engage in, and how to design for, play in a public setting. It does this by separating design for play from design of games, describing play as a socially and mentally understood activity, and a playful approach to engaging in that activity. LÄS MER
5. Bakom den gröna lacken : Den estetiska ekonomins perverterande kärna
Sammanfattning : To better understand the forces propelling the excess which characterizes much of Western society and culture, management scholars increasingly appear to be addressing notions such as play and playfulness. Through a number of narratives, homing in on a do-it-yourself movement within the heavy trucks industry in which users are displaying a keen interest in aesthetic aspects of their work tools, this book attempts to further and complement such discussions. LÄS MER