Essays about: "homo ludens"

Found 5 essays containing the words homo ludens.

  1. 1. Ögonblick : en observationsstudie om rytm och lek på Gustav Adolfs torg i Malmö

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Anna Peterson; [2022]
    Keywords : observation; rytm; lek; lekfullhet; plats; genius loci; homo ludens;

    Abstract : Att observera och undersöka platser är en förutsättning för att vi som landskapsarkitekter ska kunna skapa hållbara miljöer. Syftet med det här arbetet har varit att genom observation och litteraturstudier karaktärisera platsen Gustav Adolfs torgs materialitet, själ och funktion samt undersöka interaktionen mellan plats och användare. READ MORE

  3. 2. From Huizinga to Frasca : The Emergence and Establishment of Games as a Field of Study

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för speldesign

    Author : Tom von Sydow; [2017]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Video games, having become a mass market and part of popular culture, has in the last few decades gained increasingly more attention from the academic community. Within the arts, it was not until Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens, released in 1938, that games were first considered as anything more than childish pastime and even then, it would take decades before game studies, from a non-mathematical perspective, emerged as a subject. READ MORE

  4. 3. “Rule no.3: Never raid with pants on.” : An Anthropological Study of Communication, Co-Operation and Friendship in the ’Virtual’ World of Warcraft

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Isabell Haraldsson; [2017]
    Keywords : Online gaming; World of Warcraft; virtual worlds; online-culture; communication; social structure; social organisation; homo ludens; gamer culture;

    Abstract : The significance of technology and technological devices in the modern western society is steadily expanding, and affecting how the consumers of these products interact with one another. Both through these devices, but also how they interact without them the importance of studying these forms of interaction is therefore of rising significance. READ MORE

  5. 4. Stadens vardagsrum - ett kreativ och inspirerande rum

    University essay from SLU/Landscape Architecture (until 121231)

    Author : Emilie Ireman; [2010]
    Keywords : torg; kreativ rörelse; lekande landskap; kreativitet; rörelse; den lekande människan; parkour; Homo ludens;

    Abstract : Arbetet ifrågasätter hur torg ser ut och används idag. Detvisar på och diskuterar hur torg skulle kunna se ut ochanvändas i framtiden. Torget representerar ett exempel påen plats och ett rum i staden, vilket också fungerar somavgränsning för arbetet. READ MORE

  6. 5. Homo Ludens: A new approach to exercise on the international space station

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Certec - Rehabiliteringsteknik och Design

    Author : Robin Nilsson; Erieta Tsantoula; [2002]
    Keywords : Rörelsehinder; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : The original task for our final thesis was to solve issues that are connected with exercise on the International Space Station, ISS. Those issues are mainly centered on the conflict between scientific and human needs perfect micro gravity conditions versus the needs to physically challenge the human body. READ MORE