About Relational PlayLab
OUR MISSION “Relational Intelligence for an Inclusive World: To explore and implement play as a generative creative resource for individuals, teams, and organizations.” PROJECTS A Creator’s Journey Play, Improv & Emergence in Dialogic Processes...
Inquiry
Play is performative, constitutive of the lives we live. In play we make-up the life we want and don’t want. Our lives are living playlabs–approach with curiosity! Play is viewed as being central to creativity and innovation. Yet research on play often...Read moreThe idea of the relational self, however, involves wider and more profound social and political implications and challenges radically the liberal theory of justice.
Okano, 2016
Life is Dialogic
The single adequate form for verbally expressing authentic human life is the open-ended dialogue. Life by its very nature is dialogic. To live means to participate in dialogue: to ask questions, to heed, to respond, to agree, and so forth. In this dialogue a person...Colonialization of Knowledge
The process of producing and validating what is knowledge in the academy can be a colonial exercise. Rather than heralding a knowledge that allows learners to develop a counter culture, a colonial process can actually reward the knowledge that inserts learners within...Sponsors
PlayLab is sponsored in part by Mercy College.
