Sir Ken Robinson
The late educator whose challenge to how we learn continues to shape how PlayLabs designs experience.
“Creativity is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.”
( Voices )The minds who
The minds who
shaped the work.
A small library of thinkers whose ideas quietly sit behind everything we do.
Stuart Brown
Founder of the National Institute for Play; a foundational voice in the science of adult play.
“The opposite of play is not work. It is depression.”
Brené Brown
Researcher on vulnerability, courage and wholehearted living.
“Play — doing things just because they're fun and not because they'll accomplish a goal — is vital.”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The psychologist behind flow — the state where play and mastery meet.
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times.”
John Cleese
On seriousness, humour, and the open mode of the mind.
“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.”
Alan Watts
The philosopher who reminded us that life is more like music than a journey.
“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.”
Carl Jung
On imagination, individuation and the necessity of the symbolic.
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct.”
Joseph Campbell
The mythologist whose maps of meaning inform how we frame the journey of play.
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”