PLAY is frowned upon.
PLAY is when the kids go to bed!
PLAYing with fire.
PLAY gives life purpose.
PLAY pretend.
PLAY is cartwheels.
PLAY is complicated.
PLAY is queer.
PLAY is performative.
PLAY is daring.
PLAY is not ignoring.
PLAY is _______________.
Visitors respond to the PLAYTIME manifesto in the gallery. What’s your take on the MANIFESTO?
#PEMplaytime
“Play is collective world building.”
—Kaylene Kau, artist
PLAY is apparently terrifying.
PLAY lets us discover what kind of mind we have.
PLAY is toys.
PLAY is better than kale.
PLAY with stuffed animals.
PLAY more board games.
PLAY encourages.
PLAY is reading.
PLAY is building towers.
PLAY is playing cars.
PLAY is marriage.
PLAY is _______________.
Visitors respond to the PLAYTIME manifesto in the gallery. What’s your take on the MANIFESTO?
#PEMplaytime
“Play makes me unaware of what time it is.”
—Julia Jacquette, artist
PLAY is creativity at work.
PLAY is growth.
PLAY is for everyone.
PLAY is contagious laughter.
PLAY is rebellious.
PLAY for learning.
PLAY is open.
PLAY today.
PLAY soothes.
PLAYfull.
PLAY is no parents.
PLAY is _______________.
Visitors respond to the PLAYTIME manifesto in the gallery. What’s your take on the MANIFESTO?
#PEMplaytime
PLAY is thinking! a means to an end.
PLAY is a way to communicate.
PLAY is healing.
PLAY is a day without a schedule.
PLAY is forgetting your obligations.
PLAY is being a child forever.
PLAY is being yourself.
PLAY is Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor.
PLAY is freeing.
PLAY is ritual.
PLAY is laughter.
PLAY is _______________.
Visitors respond to the PLAYTIME manifesto in the gallery. What’s your take on the MANIFESTO?
#PEMplaytime
PLAY with my hair.
PLAY is energetic spontaneity.
PLAY is everything and everywhere.
PLAY is happiness.
PLAY is self care.
PLAY is death-defying.
PLAY is boom boom boom.
PLAY is wealth.
PLAY is flow.
PLAY is education.
PLAY teaches.
PLAY is _______________.
Visitors respond to the PLAYTIME manifesto in the gallery. What’s your take on the MANIFESTO?
#PEMplaytime
“The desire to play is the yearning that evolutionary biology has given us so that we learn. Forgetting to play is like forgetting to learn.”
—Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab