Verso – storytelling

Last month I was invited to tell the story about writing my book Apply Play • to get ahead of the game at Verso: A literary & arts evening that renders the literary…

Exposing play in the Village

Ellis in wonderland was invited to conduct a playfull workshop on bridging art and an audience plus be part of the exhibition to talk about playful education. “The Village Project functions as a…

Are you a playful citizen?

I am extremely proud to be part of this book: “The Playful Citizen • Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture” published by Amsterdam University Press. “In the last decade, digital media technologies…

Karuta!

I often have coffee or lunch at Hannie’s studio in Amsterdam, and we can talk forever about the borders and bridges between art and sciences, and ideally we also discuss crossing the…

The Fixer… leaderboard

This is the hi-score list of the fixer… game, keep track of the highest score, and make sure you score even higher! sent it to us via mail or use our questionnaire…

ellis in finance land

Beginning of this month I was invited to give a Lecture.nl at InsingerGilissen about play and the impact of play. There was great interaction and many questions were asked, one question is…

Bridging art & the audience

Invited by The Village at DEPO in Istanbul november 2018; a great weekend with two workshops using a playful proces and elements to elicit the dialog. This was the workshop invite to…

Games for Health 2018

In nov 2012 I was invited to talk at Games for Health Europe Conference in Amsterdam… that was also one of my first talks about play on stage ever…. now 6 years…