Octopus Podcast

A presentation by Bethuel Muthee about debt, loans, sports betting apps, financial speculation and gambling and how it messes up our perception of time, using the trick game pata potea as a metaphor. Kenyan social media has been in uproar over the co... more

Discussion Day 1 of the Symposium TIMES OF HANDS – GAMIFICATION VS PLAY with Cynthia Chepkemoi, Nestor Siré, Steffen Köhn, Sam Hopkins and Hans Bernhard.

A presentation by Kagonya Awori about her PHD research about Educational Games, the use of 360 video and AI in learning and more, followed by a talk with Sam Hopkins. Kagonya Awori proposes a lens for game design that is based on indigenous African w... more

Sam Hopkins summarizing the last presentations followed by a presentation with Cynthia Chepkemoi about infrastructural problems in slums in Nairobi and what kinds of alternative models emerge of this, like sharing content offline via bluetooth and ot... more

TIMES OF HANDS – GAMIFICATION VS PLAY - Symposium Introduction into the Gamification v Play Symposium and into Gamification in general by Sam Hopkins and Hans Bernhard. One of the many effects of digitalization is the growing presence and significanc... more

Oscar Peña and Hand Bernhard talking about gig economy and how to do it in a good way, protecting workers rights and about ethical issues in terms of gamification in the gig economy, for example customers reviewing workers. OSCAR PEÑA creates technol... more

Discussion Day 1 of the Symposium TIMES OF HANDS – GAMIFICATION VS PLAY with Bethuel Muthee, Oscar Peña, Sam Hopkins and Hans Bernhard

A talk with Nestor Siré, Steffen Köhn and Sam Hopkins, followed by a video essay by Nestor Siré and Steffen Köhn about the (lack of) internet in Cuba and the offline sharing alternative to it: El Paquete Semanal, a country-wide offline data sharing n... more