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Resource: Skull Paper Ornaments
Designing skull ornaments with traditional motifs reflecting the spirits of the Day of the Dead.
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Resource: Tin Foil Ornaments
Learn the art of metal embossing using tin foil to create beautiful, textured designs.
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Resource: Paper-cut Banners
Make papel picado banners, a traditional, colourful decoration for Day of the Dead celebrations.
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Resource: Paper Flowers
Create lifelike marigold (cempasúchil) paper flowers for the Day of the Dead altar.
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Resource: Skull Paper Masks
Creating unique paper skull masks for the Day of the Dead celebrations.
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Day of the Dead Craft Toolkit
Resources created for the cultural programme exploring the traditions of Mexico’s Day of the Dead at the Royal Society of Sculptors.
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Playing with the mysteries
Folk games for the Cultural Capital of Culture Eleusis 2023.
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Seize the Power
A board game about discrimination and inequality in an alien society.
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Day of the Dead Cultural Programme
Co-creating a beautiful offering through traditional craft workshops.
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Our Natural Blue Spaces
Project dedicated to exploring and celebrating the beauty of Blue Spaces (rivers, lakes, canals, and ponds).
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Elements of the Day of the Dead Altar (Ofrenda)
Reflection on Day of the Dead offerings and how ritual, memory and collective making help us remember those who are no longer with us.
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An Offering to the Dead, a tale of two worlds
The origin of the Mexican Day of the Dead.
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Empire LRP and the civics of large-scale larps
The art of playing with others, focusing on Empire Lrp to study the intricacies of social play at large scales.
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As if: the social dynamics of play
The social dynamics of larps, and how they enable space for reflection, care, and connection.
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Larp culture, the art of playing with others
When we larp, we discover the agency to do extraordinary things, shaping each other's stories and experiences.
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Doll play and the human mind
The science of dolls investigates the impact of doll play on empathy and emotional development.
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Tetris, rewiring the mind after trauma
Investigating the curious relationship between Tetris and trauma.
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Foldit, playing to solve real-world scientific problems.
Foldit is a citizen science puzzle game that challenges players to solve real-world protein-folding problems, leading to disease research an
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Played-in
As fundamental as it is misunderstood, we are only scratching the surface of what play can do for us.
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Overview: public arts enquiry
An informal investigation of what it means to be an artist today.
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Quipu, three-dimensional writing system
Each knot, twist, and colour had a meaning. Some could reveal who owed what to whom, others could tell stories of the past and present.
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The art conundrum
From the starving artists to the lone genius, we will explore some oddities, dilemmas, social rules and questions in this strange field.
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