Mathias Poulsen
@mathiaspoulsen.bsky.social
Curious soul, interested in how we might explore and design for other ways of living together, human and more-than-human alike.
Play activist, PhD, Postdoc, at Lab for Play Design, Kolding School of Design.
Play activist, PhD, Postdoc, at Lab for Play Design, Kolding School of Design.
Haven't been here for a while, but I'll just quickly mention that
CounterPlay is happening next year 🎉 At Kolding School of Design, Denmark, on May 7-9. Call for play is out, deadline extended to January 5: counterplay.org/submissions/ #play #playdesign #CounterPlay26
CounterPlay is happening next year 🎉 At Kolding School of Design, Denmark, on May 7-9. Call for play is out, deadline extended to January 5: counterplay.org/submissions/ #play #playdesign #CounterPlay26
Submissions – CounterPlay
counterplay.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Haven't been here for a while, but I'll just quickly mention that
CounterPlay is happening next year 🎉 At Kolding School of Design, Denmark, on May 7-9. Call for play is out, deadline extended to January 5: counterplay.org/submissions/ #play #playdesign #CounterPlay26
CounterPlay is happening next year 🎉 At Kolding School of Design, Denmark, on May 7-9. Call for play is out, deadline extended to January 5: counterplay.org/submissions/ #play #playdesign #CounterPlay26
I just pop in here to ramble a bit, only to meet Andy & his generous, kind offer. I'm immediately brought back to when these exchanges happened all the time on Twitter & we planned so many beautiful things like this. I miss that energy.
Always open to special issues!
And anything playfullearningassoc.co.uk can do to help with Counterplay, please ask away... got over 700 people on our mailing list now, so a good pool of playful people (and the conference next week!)
And anything playfullearningassoc.co.uk can do to help with Counterplay, please ask away... got over 700 people on our mailing list now, so a good pool of playful people (and the conference next week!)
June 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I just pop in here to ramble a bit, only to meet Andy & his generous, kind offer. I'm immediately brought back to when these exchanges happened all the time on Twitter & we planned so many beautiful things like this. I miss that energy.
And speaking of CounterPlay, how lovely to see Zack sharing this book that somehow emerged from the community back in 2017. It's still very dear to me & I would love to continue this way of working together in the play community.
You can download this great independently created book with essays and thoughts on play & playfulness made by people involved with CounterPlay, which I helped a little on:
counterplay.org/files/PowerO...
Thanks to main editor & festival organizer @mathiaspoulsen.bsky.social
counterplay.org/files/PowerO...
Thanks to main editor & festival organizer @mathiaspoulsen.bsky.social
counterplay.org
June 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
And speaking of CounterPlay, how lovely to see Zack sharing this book that somehow emerged from the community back in 2017. It's still very dear to me & I would love to continue this way of working together in the play community.
Reposted by Mathias Poulsen
You can download this great independently created book with essays and thoughts on play & playfulness made by people involved with CounterPlay, which I helped a little on:
counterplay.org/files/PowerO...
Thanks to main editor & festival organizer @mathiaspoulsen.bsky.social
counterplay.org/files/PowerO...
Thanks to main editor & festival organizer @mathiaspoulsen.bsky.social
counterplay.org
June 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
You can download this great independently created book with essays and thoughts on play & playfulness made by people involved with CounterPlay, which I helped a little on:
counterplay.org/files/PowerO...
Thanks to main editor & festival organizer @mathiaspoulsen.bsky.social
counterplay.org/files/PowerO...
Thanks to main editor & festival organizer @mathiaspoulsen.bsky.social
I've been completely quiet here, but maybe sharing stories of play is an appropriate reason to start talking?
As some of you know, we used to run CounterPlay, an international play festival with the most wonderful, playful community. It was just meant as a space for playfully exploring play.
As some of you know, we used to run CounterPlay, an international play festival with the most wonderful, playful community. It was just meant as a space for playfully exploring play.
June 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I've been completely quiet here, but maybe sharing stories of play is an appropriate reason to start talking?
As some of you know, we used to run CounterPlay, an international play festival with the most wonderful, playful community. It was just meant as a space for playfully exploring play.
As some of you know, we used to run CounterPlay, an international play festival with the most wonderful, playful community. It was just meant as a space for playfully exploring play.
Feminist murals in Göttingen 🔥
March 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Feminist murals in Göttingen 🔥
Det er netop sagen - vi er så forblændede af forestillingen om ubetinget individuel frihed og uafhængighed at vi fuldstændig overser solidaritet og det kollektive ansvar vi altid har for hinandens muligheder for at leve gode liv sammen. Før vi indser det kommer vi ingen vegne.
"Ingen skal blande sig i, hvad jeg spiser eller hvordan jeg tager på ferie eller andet. Det er min ret og hvad med alle de andre og..." Så velkommen til vores fremtid. Spørgsmålet er nu blot, om det bliver dig eller dine børn, der kommer til at filme det. #climateactionnow #darkhope
January 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Det er netop sagen - vi er så forblændede af forestillingen om ubetinget individuel frihed og uafhængighed at vi fuldstændig overser solidaritet og det kollektive ansvar vi altid har for hinandens muligheder for at leve gode liv sammen. Før vi indser det kommer vi ingen vegne.
Reposted by Mathias Poulsen
Fuck you Facebook. That was the first thought I had when I woke up this morning. Followed by: What ministry is Mark Zuckerberg volunteering to manage for the dictators of the world? Ah, yes. The Ministry of Empowerment. And here's a rager of a blog post on this: www.zephoria.org/thoughts/arc...
January 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Fuck you Facebook. That was the first thought I had when I woke up this morning. Followed by: What ministry is Mark Zuckerberg volunteering to manage for the dictators of the world? Ah, yes. The Ministry of Empowerment. And here's a rager of a blog post on this: www.zephoria.org/thoughts/arc...
Reposted by Mathias Poulsen
Great thread 👇
Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all.
It’s all about labour 🧵
It’s all about labour 🧵
January 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Great thread 👇
As I'm slowly becoming friends with our horse (can you ever really own a horse, though?), it encourages me to think in new ways about humans & more-than-humans, troubling my assumptions in so many ways. What an exciting adventure we have embarked on together 🐴
January 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
As I'm slowly becoming friends with our horse (can you ever really own a horse, though?), it encourages me to think in new ways about humans & more-than-humans, troubling my assumptions in so many ways. What an exciting adventure we have embarked on together 🐴
We just bought a horse & it's a whole new world for me. Camilla grew up on horseback, I most certainly did not. Let's just say there's much I need to learn. That said, she's a beautiful, sweet animal, so big, but patient, gentle & playful ❤️🐴
December 28, 2024 at 4:21 PM
We just bought a horse & it's a whole new world for me. Camilla grew up on horseback, I most certainly did not. Let's just say there's much I need to learn. That said, she's a beautiful, sweet animal, so big, but patient, gentle & playful ❤️🐴
Reposted by Mathias Poulsen
"Det kræver en særlig vulgær økonomisme at kigge på de sidste 20 års udvikling i USA som en anvisning, snarere end en advarsel. Samlet set er det ikke europæerne, der lever i en taberregion."
#dkpol […]
#dkpol […]
Original post on uddannelse.social
uddannelse.social
December 26, 2024 at 7:21 AM
"Det kræver en særlig vulgær økonomisme at kigge på de sidste 20 års udvikling i USA som en anvisning, snarere end en advarsel. Samlet set er det ikke europæerne, der lever i en taberregion."
#dkpol […]
#dkpol […]
Such a beautiful record! And a moment of peace before the guests arrive...
December 25, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Such a beautiful record! And a moment of peace before the guests arrive...
Had been out & got a spontaneous urge to make a fire. It's a bit cold & windy, but the flames, hot chocolate & blackcurrant rum helps. What a year, huh?
December 23, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Had been out & got a spontaneous urge to make a fire. It's a bit cold & windy, but the flames, hot chocolate & blackcurrant rum helps. What a year, huh?
Det lyder enormt spændende og Katrine er skidedygtig 💪❤️
Kæmpe #twanbefaling: Den fantastiske Katrine Kjeldsen (som Twitterveteraner vil kende og savne her) afholder et ledelseswebinar på torsdag, som er superinteressant og meget aktuelt: www.syndicate.dk/webinar/sada... #dkledelse
Sådan leder du neurodivergente medarbejdere i praksis
Hvordan leder du medarbejdere med en hjerne, der tager alternative ruter? Og hvorfor er divergens en styrke for teamet.
www.syndicate.dk
December 9, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Det lyder enormt spændende og Katrine er skidedygtig 💪❤️
På Uddannelsesdebatten deltog jeg i en samtale om uddannelse, demokrati, leg & skrammellegepladser. Der var en masse gode spørgsmål & det var en stor fornøjelse. Nu ligger samtalen som podcast via Pædagogisk Extrakt, bla her open.spotify.com/episode/4rKR...
#skolechat #uddannelse
#skolechat #uddannelse
Leg, demokrati og nye verdener
Pædagogisk Extrakt · Episode
open.spotify.com
December 9, 2024 at 10:32 AM
På Uddannelsesdebatten deltog jeg i en samtale om uddannelse, demokrati, leg & skrammellegepladser. Der var en masse gode spørgsmål & det var en stor fornøjelse. Nu ligger samtalen som podcast via Pædagogisk Extrakt, bla her open.spotify.com/episode/4rKR...
#skolechat #uddannelse
#skolechat #uddannelse
We did some tremendously refreshing (if a little cold) fieldwork in a project last week. I love it & am again reminded that more of my work should take place outdoors. It is always where I feel most alive.
December 9, 2024 at 9:51 AM
We did some tremendously refreshing (if a little cold) fieldwork in a project last week. I love it & am again reminded that more of my work should take place outdoors. It is always where I feel most alive.
I'm working on a paper, trying to "get to the point" & now I'm pondering that expression. Isn't it weird? If one would argue that process is everything, then getting to the point is not so important, is it? One point of convergence, that is rarely what I'm after.
December 9, 2024 at 8:38 AM
I'm working on a paper, trying to "get to the point" & now I'm pondering that expression. Isn't it weird? If one would argue that process is everything, then getting to the point is not so important, is it? One point of convergence, that is rarely what I'm after.
Reposted by Mathias Poulsen
Save the date to Play for the Planet! If you’ve got an interest in game design, education & research in the context of climate and ecological crises, why not join us in York on 25th April 2025 to connect and share experiences. Sign up to attend & contribute at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/play-for-t...
Play for the Planet 2
Play for the Plant brings together educators, researchers and game developers to engage playfully with games
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December 2, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Save the date to Play for the Planet! If you’ve got an interest in game design, education & research in the context of climate and ecological crises, why not join us in York on 25th April 2025 to connect and share experiences. Sign up to attend & contribute at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/play-for-t...
Reminds me of Hannah Arendt about loving the world & Jane Bennett who argued "to some small but irreducible extent, one must be enamored with existence and occasionally even enchanted in the face of it in order to be capable of donating some of one’s scarce mortal resources to the service of others"
Politics only matters because of what we love, what we care about, where meaning comes from. And this is part of what I love and where meaning comes from, for me.
December 2, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Reminds me of Hannah Arendt about loving the world & Jane Bennett who argued "to some small but irreducible extent, one must be enamored with existence and occasionally even enchanted in the face of it in order to be capable of donating some of one’s scarce mortal resources to the service of others"
I feel a bit rusty with this kind of social media space. When Twitter was best (which is some years ago), it was a space for thinking out loud, for sharing the unfinished, for encountering new ideas & ways of thinking, for passionate conversations & for exploring differences.
December 2, 2024 at 2:30 PM
I feel a bit rusty with this kind of social media space. When Twitter was best (which is some years ago), it was a space for thinking out loud, for sharing the unfinished, for encountering new ideas & ways of thinking, for passionate conversations & for exploring differences.
Det virker simpelthen ikke gennemtænkt, men måske er det netop dét? Måske er AI netop en løftestang for en ideologisk motiveret reduktion af det offentlige? Hvis man i forvejen ser alt ikke-privat som et onde, så kommer AI jo som sendt fra en neoliberal himmel.
Det her bliver en katastrofe af episke dimensioner.
Regeringen vil spare ml. 10.000 og 99.999 offentligt ansatte årsværk ved brug af kunstig intelligens (KI). Er det realistisk?
En lille hurtig tråd om hvorfor svaret er et stort fedt nej 🧵
nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2024...
En lille hurtig tråd om hvorfor svaret er et stort fedt nej 🧵
nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2024...
December 2, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Det virker simpelthen ikke gennemtænkt, men måske er det netop dét? Måske er AI netop en løftestang for en ideologisk motiveret reduktion af det offentlige? Hvis man i forvejen ser alt ikke-privat som et onde, så kommer AI jo som sendt fra en neoliberal himmel.
Last week, we ran a writing workshop for some of our MA students at Kolding School of Design. We proposed "writing as design" to draw it closer to their practice as designers. If writing is prototyping & giving shape to a material, how might that change their relationship to writing?
November 30, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Last week, we ran a writing workshop for some of our MA students at Kolding School of Design. We proposed "writing as design" to draw it closer to their practice as designers. If writing is prototyping & giving shape to a material, how might that change their relationship to writing?
I'm still finding my feet here, so do feel free to suggest connections - I'm interested in almost anything, especially life, love, play, design, democracy, writing & other important things 🤣
November 27, 2024 at 12:24 PM
I'm still finding my feet here, so do feel free to suggest connections - I'm interested in almost anything, especially life, love, play, design, democracy, writing & other important things 🤣
Haven't quite found myself or anyone else here, but it sure looks and feels familiar, huh? Makes me nostalgic & dream of the times when social media were fun, full of wonderful people & amazing conversations. Is that still possible?
November 27, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Haven't quite found myself or anyone else here, but it sure looks and feels familiar, huh? Makes me nostalgic & dream of the times when social media were fun, full of wonderful people & amazing conversations. Is that still possible?