Design & Play (2016)
29 April – 14 May 2016
RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne
Design & Play explores the role of play and “playful” as a barometer and cultural probe for contemporary cultural practice. Design & Play considers the interdisciplinary and poetic role of play through the eyes of designers and artists. The exhibition takes its cue from interdisciplinary communities and debates around the understanding of play as a creative, social, cultural and political concept and mode of practice. For some theorists, contemporary media is inherently playful which is productive; for other theorists this playful process is a form of playbour—a fusion and confusion of play and labour. However, in everyday life these divisions are more ambivalent.
