Today I listened to a really great podcast on NPR's TED Radio Hour. The show is called "Press Play" and is comprised of five other TED talks including Jeff Mogil's How Can Playing A Game Make You More Empathetic, Charlie Todd's Who's That Guy Riding The Subway In His Underwear, Stuart Brown's How Does Play Shape Our Development, Isabel Behncke's What Can Bonobos Teach Us About Play?, and lastly Jane McGonigal's How Can Video Games Improve Our Real Lives.
The majority of the show discussed how all different forms of play can make humans smarter, saner and ultimately more collaborative. Being a public service and public policy major we have learned that services and policy formulation is relying more and more on various stakeholders collaborating towards one mission. The process of governing is requiring more collaboration between different levels of agencies and sectors. How come there is no intersection of play and work?
From what I can tell working at ASP for my internship, I do not know when there would be time to play. First of all, there would probably have to be a study and cost benefits analysis of why the employees should participate in play. Then, some type of framework or detailed plan that articulates exactly what will be happening and what the predicted outcomes are. That indeed would take time, but simply conducting in play makes individuals more collaborative because they instantly feel empathy once engaged in play.
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