"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Who's afraid of the Big Bad Bricks? You wouldn't believe it, but there's a question I get asked, in various forms, every single time I introduce LEGO Serious Play to a professional audience. Sometimes it comes as a practical concern: "Do we really need the LEGO,...
The Misconception Confession time: I hate team building. I think team building sucks. When you're a company, team building is the activity you do to wash your conscience and tell yourself people are the problem when something isn't working. When you're a team member, team building...
For the workshop I did in Bolzano, and I wanted to do something different, since I have way too many people and way too few assistants to do a proper workshop using LEGO Serious Play, so I grabbed some of the sets in the new...
A few weeks ago, I gave you my two cents (well, they're more than two cents, by now) on the future of adult learning, and the first pillar of my theory was the necessity to involve game design. This week, back from Denmark and while...
The end of 2024 brought us no grand educational reckoning, no moment of consensus that we need to reimagine how adults learn. Instead, through 2025, we've settled into a peculiarly quiet collective exhaustion with the pandemic's educational experiments, paired with a creeping anxiety that something...
As promised, and before people storm back to their offices with the wild notion I should answer their e-mails and phone calls, I need to spend a couple of words on this game because it's delightful. Winter Burrow is a survival game, meaning it's a game...
Last week, I pursued the general hype and went to our local theatre to see a contemporary Opera inspired by Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose, one of my favourite books of all time. And though it was mostly inspired by the 1986 movie, it...
Ok, so, I've been playing Dragon Age: Veilguard, the latest title in a franchise I love to bits, and I've been at it since the day it came out. I'm around 100 hours of gameplay, and I just finished Chapter 10/14. I'm avoiding major spoilers...
...and I don't mean it metaphorically; I mean it literally. I recently discovered that many young artists either struggle with the rules and concepts of perspective or find that boring, as they're more oriented towards character and creature design, so here's a list of games...
Yesterday, we saw 12 video games that teach you how to code, but what if you're dealing with people who need a motivational boost with a foundational concept like math? Well, look no more. Here's a selection of 8+1 games that might do the trick. 1....
