Wonderful, Andy. I have truly missed all this. While I've been working with play all along, something has been missing. Even just this kind of planning we used to do on Twitter all the time 🤣

Yes! I'm fairly confident that we will. At least more confident about it than I have for a long time. It's going to happen (🤞). Still many things to figure out, of course 🤣

Maybe we could consider a special issue of Play in Adulthood (just an idea that popped up now 🤣).

So there we were, a small group of people playing together, rekindling the play energy we all love. And around the fire, we decided there will be more CounterPlay next year in the spring. We don't know more than that yet, but I wrote some reflections here: www.mathiaspoulsen.com/rekindling-c...

It seems to me that CounterPlay might even make more sense today than ever, the need for connecting deeply, for cultivating joyful spaces imbued with a sense of care & love, is only growing. We spend too much time being angry, fearful, despondent, too little time laughing, dreaming, hoping.

And then recently, we had the chance to gather a small group of playful people, friends of CounterPlay & Kolding School of Design, to play together & to explore whether some version of CounterPlay still makes sense now, more than six years after the last festival.

The festival took place in 2019, was supposed to return in 2021, Covid and my PhD got in the way, and I have often thought that, well, maybe it was just a thing of the past. But then people kept reminding me & I fondly remember all these playful encounters. I was not ready to let it go.

Ja, det er ret fint. Nogle gange glemmer vi at tjekke, men der er egentlig ok mange steder hvor det er en mulighed. Oftest går det hele helt smertefrit (ja, det gør det jo så selvfølgelig ikke for dem med kroniske smerter).

Tror heldigvis mange steder praktiserer det. Vi har også gjort brug af muligheden på bla Voxhall og NorthSide.

We too! Wouldn't that be something ⛵️ hope you're enjoying the holidays, Alex! Looks like you've had a nice beer journey recently!

Ja, både pladen og det nummer er simpelthen fantastisk. Elsker det. Og absolut én af mine favoritter i den ellers lidt anstrengende kategori "julemusik".