We use the term playground in the way most understand it to mean: a place to hold recess. Where the focus is not on the stuff you can see (the playground equipment, or the open space used to play ball or tag), but rather on the human interactions that resets the brain.
To see how children’s playground and recess relates to the very adult interactions between power practitioners, stay with us as we take a closer look…
Playground is one of those words whose definition does not signal the full meaning of the word. Obviously, it is an outdoor area provided for children to play…, but the main focus is on the interactions that take place at recess that closes the loop on the full definition of the word playground.
Recess, a power situation that initially appears to be so simple as children playing, is in real terms a complex network of human power system(s) interacting within their physical world.
Technically speaking:
A multi-layer, multi-dimensional power system that moves in omnidirectional ways across many facets of power: Financial, Logistical, Analytical, Biological, Social.
Where the power factors include the stuff you can see and touch: the open space of 1) the playground itself, 2) the playground equipment, 3) the young people playing, 4) the supervising adults, 5) and more…
Where the power interaction loops are: 1) within each child’s individual mind, 2) between any two individual children, 3) between individuals and small groups of children, 4) between small groups of children and other small groups of children, 5) between any individual child or small groups of children and any number of supervising adults that happen to be present, at the moment and throughout the recess period, and more…
… the importance of the complexities of the quality of the interactions become self-evident
Another type of playground, most notably brought forth by Albert Einstein are thought experiments. Throughout time, power practitioners have used conceptual rather than actual experiments as a precondition to running experiments in the physical world.
agnetic, inspired by those that came before us, continues this systems design discipline by 1) conducting design focused use case power scenarios, 2) apprenticing focused use case power simulations and importantly 3) producing focused exponential power moves.
We provide these articles as playground equipment for other power practitioners to enjoy at recess. In the same way recess resets the human brain for school children by providing a necessary break from the rigors of concentrated academic challenges in the classroom, we offer this open space to give power practitioners open space to practice their power interaction capabilities, and more…