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"Game studies is a rapidly developing field across the world, with a growing number of dedicated courses addressing video games and digital play as significant phenomena in contemporary everyday life and media cultures. Seth Giddings looks to fill a gap by focusing on the relationship between the actual and virtual worlds of play in everyday life. He addresses both the continuities and differences between digital play and longer-established modes of play. The 'gameworlds' title indicates both the virtual world designed into the videogame and the wider environments in which play is manifested: social relationships between players; hardware and software; between the virtual worlds of the game and the media universes they extend (e.g. Poke;mon, Harry Potter, Lego, Star Wars); and the gameworlds generated by children's imaginations and creativity (through talk and role-play, drawings and outdoor play). The gameworld raises questions about who, and what, is in play. Drawing on recent theoretical work in science and technology studies, games studies and new media studies, a key theme is the material and embodied character of these gameworlds and their components (players' bodies, computer hardware, toys, virtual physics, and the physical environment). Building on detailed small-scale ethnographic case studies, Gameworlds is the first book to explore the nature of play in the virtual worlds of video games and how this play relates to, and crosses over into, everyday play in the actual world."-- "Game studies is a rapidly developing field across the world, with a growing number of dedicated courses addressing video games and digital play as significant phenomena in contemporary everyday life and media cultures. Seth Giddings looks to fill a gap by focusing on the relationship between the actual and virtual worlds of play in everyday life. He addresses both the continuities and differences between digital play and longer-established modes of play (role-play, play with toys, etc.). The 'gameworlds' title indicates both the virtual world designed into the videogame and the wider environments in which play is manifested: social relationships between players; hardware and software; between the virtual worlds of the game and the media universes they extend (e.g. Harry Potter, Lego, Star Wars); and the gameworlds generated by children's imaginations and creativity (through talk and role-play, drawings and outdoor play). The gameworld raises questions about who, and what, is in play. Drawing on recent theoretical work in science and technology studies and new media studies, a key theme is the material and embodied character of these gameworlds and their components (players' bodies, computer hardware, toys, virtual physics, the physical environment, etc.). Gameworlds uses each chapter to discuss small-scale ethnographic studies and close analyses of particular videogames, with shorter sections addressing the theoretical and conceptual issues that arise. Building on detailed case studies, this is the first book to explore the nature of play in the virtual worlds of video games and how this play relates to, and crosses over into, everyday play in the actual world"--

Video games --- Virtual reality. --- Play environments. --- Social science --- Education --- Social aspects. --- Media Studies. --- Non-Formal Education. --- Child play areas --- Children's play areas --- Children's play environments --- Play areas --- Play environment --- Recreation areas --- Environments, Virtual --- Virtual environments --- Virtual worlds --- Computer simulation --- Reality --- Social Science --- Media Studies

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What we teach and the way we teach is being hotly debated within countries and between continents. Planning Learning Spaces demonstrates cutting-edge approaches to educational space design, from kindergarten to college studies, and explains how these spaces support education and enhance learning experiences. With contributions from leading professionals, including Herman Hertzberger and Sir Kenneth Robinson, Planning Learning Spaces is an invaluable resource for architects, interior designers, and educators.

School buildings --- Play environments --- Classroom environment --- School libraries --- 727.1 --- 727.1 Schoolarchitectuur. Scholenbouw. Schoolgebouwen --- Schoolarchitectuur. Scholenbouw. Schoolgebouwen --- Public school libraries --- Libraries --- Instructional materials centers --- Libraries and schools --- Classroom climate --- Climate, Classroom --- Environment, Classroom --- Classroom management --- School environment --- Teacher-student relationships --- Child play areas --- Children's play areas --- Children's play environments --- Play areas --- Play environment --- Recreation areas --- Buildings, School --- School architecture --- School-houses --- Schoolhouses --- Public buildings --- School facilities --- Design and construction

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Designing Cities with Children and Young People focuses on promoting better outcomes in the built environment for children and young people in cities across the world. This book presents the experience of practitioners and researchers who actively advocate for and participate with children and youth in planning and designing urban environments. It aims to cultivate champions for children and young people among urban development professionals, to ensure that their rights and needs are fully acknowledged and accommodated.With international and interdisciplinary contributors, this book sets out to build bridges and provide resources for policy makers, social planners, design practitioners and students. The content moves from how we conceptualize children in the built environment, what we have discovered through research, how we frame the task and legislate for it, and how we design for and with children. Designing Cities with Children and Young People ultimately aims to bring about change to planning and design policies and practice for the benefit of children and young people in cities everywhere.

City children --- City planning --- Architecture and children --- Play environments --- Children --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Child play areas --- Children's play areas --- Children's play environments --- Play areas --- Play environment --- Recreation areas --- Children in cities --- Urban children --- City dwellers --- Urban teenagers --- Urban youth --- Government policy --- Management --- children [people by age group] --- playgrounds --- Environmental planning --- Political sociology --- urban planning --- participatory design --- Social geography --- City children. --- City planning. --- Architecture and children. --- Play environments. --- Enfants en milieu urbain --- Architecture et enfants --- Aires de jeux