Interaction Imagination

This week some of my words from my interview with Sally at the Play First conference were quoted, and I noticed that there was a lot of...

"Intimate attachments to other human beings are the hub around which a person's life revolves, not only as an infant or a toddler or a...

What is the essential childhood experience of play? This question was asked of me over on Instagram. And to try and get a wider...

I first wrote a blog sharing my thinking about Original Learning in October 2017... And I have just returned to that post to reflect on...

During the Play First Summit I talked about relationships as being key... the process of listening to understand rather than listening to...

I write, hold presentations and workshops about democratic learning a lot. And when I do I always start with how I define democratic,...

I often find articles and comments about how playgrounds and play-spaces limit children, often in connection with the promotion of...

Over the years I have used a lot of circles as ways to explain my thinking. And while I like circles I still find them a little too neat...

This is the last in the series connecting to the talk for Play First Summit 2020 arranged by Teacher Tom and Sally Haughey of Fairy Dust...

I have decided to write several chapters on this topic of storytelling in more manageable bitesize reads as I realised that this too was...

In April 2018 I made a visit to Aspen preschool in Norsborg in Botkyrka, part of the greater Stockholm area. Botkyrka is also an area in...

For me, the atelier, or art studio, is so much more than just a place to make arty things... it is a place of discovery, recovery and...

(på svenska efter foto-bilder) In the AnjiPlay kindergartens in China, the words Love, Risk, Joy, Engagement and Reflection are their...

(texten finns på svenska efter bilderna) For me love and joy are interwoven, and rather difficult to pull apart. When I write about...

Over on my Instagram I have started to share photographs that I randomly choose from my photos and add reflections - what memories does...

Lego is an open ended material that can be used in a myriad of ways... in my home and work I have seen constructions being made, artwork,...

(finns på svenska efter andra sekvens av bilder) I am a big fan of what is for the most part called risky play, but I have found that the...

(på svenska efter bilderna) On my Facebook page Interaction Imagination I have been sharing inspiration photos from artists creating land...

"Jag skulle vilja omformulera Dr. Stephen Shores uttalande "Om du har träffat en person med autism, har du träffat en person med autism,"...

“I would like to rephrase Dr. Stephen Shore’s statement “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism,” to...