5TH ITRA WORLD CONGRESS
TOYS AND CULTURE
ITRA_PFF
Nafplion 9-10-11 July 2008
Department of Theatre Studies, Vas. Georgiou II and Irakleous St., Nafplion 211 00/ Old Parliament, Staikopoulou St. , Nafplion 211 00
The International Toy Research Association (ITRA), founded in 1993, is devoted to the scientific study of toys in all their facets. ITRA brings together toy researchers from all corners of the globe (see www.toyresearch.org for further information on ITRA). This is our 5th International Congress to discuss research, collaborate on international projects, and exchange information with other researchers, students, and leaders in the toy industry. More than 100 delegates from 17 countries attended our previous meeting in Alicante, Spain. The Nafplion meeting will exceed that number.
The Department for Theatre Studies was founded in 2003 in Nafplion Greece as part of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of the Peloponnese (see www.uop.gr). It aims to cultivate and promote the performing arts (dance, theatre and film studies) through academic and applied research and to provide its 252 students with the knowledge needed for their scientific, artistic and professional development. To this end, the Department organizes lectures, exhibitions and many events dealing with dance, theatre and film. Moreover it participates in the ERASMUS programme for Education in Europe.
Conference Theme
Programme
Wednesday 9 July
Old Parliament Building
08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:30 Opening of Congress: Welcome speeches
Vassilis Sotiropoulos, Prefect of Argolis
Panagiotis Anagnostaras, Mayor of Napflion
Stavros Perentidis, Head of the Department of Theatre Studies,
University of the Peloponnese
Ioanna Papantoniou, President and director of the Peloponnesian Folklore
Foundation
Ioannis Bollas, President of the Cultural Organization O.P.A.N.A.A.R
Andrianos Anyfantis, President of the Old People’s Home “Pronoia Maria K.
Radou”
Cleo Gougoulis, ITRA president
09:30-10:30 Gilles Brougère, Université Paris Nord, France
Keynote address 1
Toys, games and play in the circle dance of children's mass culture.
10:30-11:00 Nora Skouteri-Didaskalou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Keynote address 2
On toys and culture: One can never tell what is going to be sung
Ground Floor
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break sponsored by the Association of Friends of the Peloponnesian
Folklore Foundation
Poster Session: Edda Bontempo, Lairtes J.M.Temple Vidal
University of Sâo Paolo, Brazil (paper presented by Maria do Carmo
Monteiro Kobayashi, University Etadual Paulistas)
Development of imagination in a business management classroom.
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Department of Theatre Studies
► Toys, Media and Technology Room A, First Floor
11:30-12:00 Evangelia Kourti, University of Athens, Greece
Children’s televised toy advertisements in Greece and the
globalization of children’s culture.
12:00-12:30 Marilu Polymeropoulou, Postgraduate student,University of Athens, Greece
Toy-music.
12:30-13:00 Artemis Yagou, AKTO Art and Design College, Athens, Greece
Playing with technology: The case of toy-like radio sets.
13:00-13:30 Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Toying with me, here, now: Play in everyday life of trans-youths
in Seoul.
► Toys in Educational and Museum Practice Room B, Ground Floor
11:30-12:00 Stevanne Auerbach, San Francisco, USA (paper presented by Helena
Kling, The Educational Centre for Games, Israel)
The impact of construction play.
12:00-12:30 Dimitra Deroyannis and Mariza Tsachali, Hellenic Children’s Museum,
Greece
Playing to learn and learning to play. The educational role of play in
Children’s Museums.
12:30-13:00 Maria Roussou and Elia Vlachou
Piraeus Group Cultural Foundation, Greece and Museums Network Department,
Greece
The challenge of creating digital game-based learning environments
for museums
.
13:30-15:00 Lunch Hotels Rex and Nafplia
15:00-16:30 PLENARY SESSION Old Parliament Building
SYMPOSIUM: Approaching the Culture of Toys. Session in memory of Birgitta Almqvist, Founding Member and first Secretary of ITRA.
Gisela Wegener Spöhring, (chair and co-ordinator) University of
Cologne, Germany
Gilles Brougère, Université Paris-Nord, France
Eva Petersson, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark
Cleo Gougoulis, Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation, Greece
David Hawtin, British Toy and Hobby Association, UK
Jeffrey Goldstein, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break Department of Theatre Studies
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Department of Theatre Studies
► Technology Room A, First Floor
17:00-17:30 Lydia Plowman, Joanna McPake and Christine Stephen University of
Stirling, UK
A toxic childhood? Family views on young children’s play with
technology.
17:30-18:00 Wendy Dupuy Jacocks, Doctoral student, University of Memphis, USA
Toys: Technological Opportunities Yield Success.
18:00-18:30 Doris Bergen, Kathleen Hutchinson and Deborah Weber
Miami University, USA and Fisher Price, Inc, USA
Effect of infant-parent play with a technology- enhanced toy:
Αffordance-related actions and communicative interactions.
18:30-19:00 Geoffrey Long MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, USA
Toys, twenty-somethings and technology: Action figures as philosophy
tokens, story tokens and trans-media extensions.
► Observing Toy Play Room B, Ground Floor
17:00-17:30 Kafenia Botsoglou and Domna Kakana, University of Thessaly, Greece
Play without rules? When toys make children “impose” their own
rules.
17:30-18:00 Konstantinos Karadimitriou, Maria Sakellariou and Spyros
Pantazis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Social and cognitive aspects of 5- and 7- year- old children’s play
with toys and play material.
18:00-18:30 Minna Ruckenstein and Tamara Rapoport,
TheUniversity of Helsinki, Finland and Hebrew University, Israel
Techno-intimacies and educational anxieties: Negotiating toys in a
Finnish kindergarten.
Evening Events
20:00 Guided Tour of the Folk Art Museum, Peloponnesian Folklore
Foundation (PFF).
21:00 Reception, sponsored by the Friends of the PFF- Traditional winter and
Spring carols by Lida Xida and Stamatis Diamantopoulos, sponsored by
the Department of Childhood, Toys and Games, Benaki Museum.
Thursday 10 July
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Department of Theatre Studies
Room A, First Floor
► SYMPOSIUM I led by Mathieu Gielen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Toy Design Education Programs, Part 1
09:00-09:30 Lieselotte Van Leeuwen, University of Sunderland, UK
Social science in the idea development stage of design for play.
09:30-10:00 Yiu-Cheung (Greg) Shiu, Honk Kong Design Institute, China
Toy design education in Hong Kong.
10:00-10:30 Mathieu Gielen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Aimlessness, empathy, play value: Essential concepts in toy design
education.
10:30-11:00 Phil Tan, Clara Fernandez-Vara and Matthew Weise
Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab,USA
Introducing videogame studies in traditional academic settings.
Eva Petersson, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark
Medialogy education.
Room B, Ground Floor
► SYMPOSIUM II led by Suzanne Seriff, The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, USA
Batteries Not Included: Handmade Toys in Machine-Made Times. Part 1
09:00-09:30 Suzanne Seriff, The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, USA
Recycling for fun and profit.
09:30-10:00 Maria Argyriadis, Department of Childhood, Toys and Games,
Benaki Museum, Greece
Customary toys and games in Greek traditional society.
10:00-10:30 Uwemedimo Enoboung Iwoketok, University of Jos, Nigeria
Folk toys in a machine made age: A return to the stone age?
10:30-11:00 Sudarshan Khanna, National Institute of Design, India
Relevance of indigenous toy culture today.
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
Room B, Ground Floor
Poster session: Abhay Kothari, Manthan Educational Programme Society,
India
Low cost toys for informal science learning.
Traditional carols by Lyda Xida and Stamatis Diamantopoulos,
sponsored by the Department of Childhood, Toys and Games,
Benaki Museum.
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Department of Theatre Studies
Room A, First Floor
► SYMPOSIUM I led by Mathieu Gielen Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Toy Design Education Programs, Part 2
11:30-12:00 Vaso Trova, Iris Likourioti and Giorgos Papakonstantinou,
University of Thessaly, Greece
Inventing constraints: Game design and the making of architectural
objects.
12:00-12:30 Barry Kudrowitz, Mechanical Engineering, MIT, USA
The play pyramid: A play classification tool and brainstorming toy.
12:30-13:00 Rémi Leclerc, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Hong Kong hackshops: creative instant toy design workshops.
13:00-13:30 Diane Westwood, University of Sunderland, UK
Transitional space objects and phenomena: Implications for
design.
Room B, Ground Floor
► SYMPOSIUM II led by Suzanne Seriff The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, USA
Batteries Not Included: Handmade Toys in Machine-Made Times, Part 2
11:30-12:00 Kathan Kothari, National Institute of Design, India (paper presented by
Abhay Kothari, Manthan Educational Programme Society, India)
Learning science while playing: The Indian experience.
12:00-12:30 Jean – Pierre Rossie, University of Ghent, Belgium
Globalization and tradition in Moroccan Anti-Atlas children’s toy
and play culture.
► Applied Design I
12:30-13:00 Malena Fabregat, Aiju, Toy Research Institute, Spain
Eldergames: Development of high therapeutic value IST- based
games for monitoring and improving the quality of life of elderly
people.
13:00-13:30 Katriina Heljakka, University of Art and Design, Pori, Finland
The art of making a game. Analyzing and managing the creative
process behind board game development.
13:30-15:00 Lunch Hotels Rex and Nafplia
PLENARY SESSION Old Parliament Building
15:00-15:30
ITRA-BTHA 2007-2008 award, presented by Jeffrey Goldstein
on behalf of the International Toy Research Association and Roland
Earl on behalf of the British Toy and Hobby Association
15:30-16:00 Jan Phillips, University of Southern Maine, USA
Accomplishing family through toy consumption.
16:00-16:30 Hyun-Jung Oh, Doctoral student, University College London, UK
The phenomenon of dolls’ houses: Putting together memories and
fantasies.
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break Department of Theatre Studies
Room B, Ground Floor
Poster Session: Antal Kelle, Hungary
Meditation toys: Between toy and art
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Department of Theatre Studies
► Toy Marketing Room A, First Floor
17:00-17:30 Maria das Graças de Souza Teixeira, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
The trans-Atlantic dream market.
17:30-18:00 Evangelia Kourti and Vasso Barboussi, University of Athens and
University of the Peloponnese, Greece
Dancing toys: The quest for mechanical life.
18:00-18:30 Luisa Magalhães, Portuguese Catholic University, Portugal
Portuguese toy adverts on television: Features and strategies for
enchanting children.
18:30-19:00 Amanda Gummer, FUNdamentals, UK
An investigation into the emotional values consumers look for
when making entertainment choices.
► Changing Toy Cultures Room B, Ground Floor
17:00-17:30 Handan Asûde Basal, Pinar Bagceli, and Meral Taner
Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey
The toys and games which are played in Turkey from great-
grandmothers/ grandfathers to grandchildren in four generations.
17:30-18:00 Handan Asûde Basal, Uludag University, Bursa Turkey
Children’s games with and without toys played in Turkey during the
past years.
18:00-18:30 Elena Smirnova and Irina Filippova, Center of Play and Toys,
Moscow, Russia
Psychological examination of toys in Moscow.
Evening Events
20:00-22:30 Cruise in the Argolic Bay. Light dinner, sponsored by the Cultural
Organization O.P.A.N.A.A.R.
Friday 11 July
PLENARY SESSION Old Parliament Building
09:00-10:00 Invited speaker: Wijnand Ijsselstein, Eindhoven University of
Technology, The Netherlands
Presentation of The Game Experience Lab.
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Department of Theatre Studies
► Gender Issues, Part 1 Room A, First Floor
10:00-10:30 Angeliki Tsapakidou, John Papadelis and Nektaria Palaiologou,
University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Chrysie Papadeli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Gender choices towards play and toys: Research in primary
school children.
10:30-11:00 Alexandra Frederikou, Fanny Folerou, Independent Researchers, Greece
Observing elementary school girls play: The skipping rope.
► History, Part 1 Room B, Ground Floor
10:00-10:30 Maria Velioti-Georgopoulos, University of the Peloponnese, Greece
Playing with puppets: Greek discourses on children’s toy puppet
theatre 1870-1950.
10:30-11:00 Despina Karakatsani, University of the Peloponnese, Greece
Educational toys and materials in Greek primary school after the
Second World War (1950-1990).
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
Room B, Ground Floor
Poster Session: Helena Kling, The Educational Centre for Games, Israel
New toys for old.
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Department of Theatre Studies
► Gender Issues, Part 2 Room A, First Floor
11:30-12:00 Tizuko Morchida Kishimoto, Andréia Tiemi Ono
University of Sâo Paulo, Brazil
Children’s play and gender in the play room;
12:00-12:30 Kathy Merlock – Jackson, Virginia Wesleyan College, USA
Doll wars: Barbie and her competitors in the twenty first century.
12:30-13:00 Greta Elleen Penell, University of Indianápolis, USA
Why boys still don´t play with Barbie: Gender socialization in
toyland.
13:00-13:30 Miriam Forman-Brunell, University of Missouri-Kansas City,USA
The princess of multivalence: Adults’ anxiety and girls’ identity.
► History, Part 2 Room B, Ground Floor
11:30-12:00 Valérie-Inés de La Ville and Michel Manson, Poitiers University,
France and Université Paris 13, France
French toy and games manufacturers and their responsibility towards
children, 1891-1945.
12:00-12:30 Giorgos Papaconstantinou, University of Thessaly, Greece
Early animation toys: From science to spectacle.
12:30-13:00 Yehudit Inbar, Museums Division, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
Children’s play and creativity during the holocaust.
13:00-13:30 Maria Papathanassiou, University of Athens, Greece
Children´s toys and industrial toys: Children of the poor and aspects
of their material culture in Central Europe before the Second World
War.
13:30-15:00 Lunch Hotels Rex and Nafplia
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Department of Theatre Studies
► Applied Design II Room A, First Floor
15:00-15:30 Gayatri Menon, National Institute of Design, India
Alternate game play: Design challenges and opportunities
15:30-16:00 Siegfried Zoels, Fördern durch Spielmittel, Germany
Developing innovative toys - creativity, design and social action.
people with special needs as partner and authors.
16:00-16:30 Dimitris Gouscos and Maria Saridaki, University of Athens
EPINOISI R&D project on specialized formation of general
and special education teachers and production of digital game-
based educational material for mild mental retardation.
► Toys, Ethnicity and Nationalism Room B, Ground Floor
15:00-15:30 Panagiota Politi, Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Greece
Children’s toys and media in a bilingual community: A historical and
cultural analysis.
15:30-16:00 Maria do Carmo Monteiro Kobayashi, University Etadual Paulistas,
Brazil
Asobi Mashou: Ludic culture of Japanese descendants.
16:00-16:30 Daniella Pelegrinelli, University of Saint Martín, Argentina
Toy industry, childhood imageries and policies in Argentina during
the Peronist government (1946-1955).
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
PLENARY SESSION Old Parliament Building
17:00-17:30 Closing Ceremony. Conclusions and Farewell
Piano: Theolena Piki, Municipal Music School of Nafplion
“K.Nonis”.
17:30-18:30 ITRA General Meeting
18:30-19:00 ITRA Board meeting
Evening Events
19:30-20:30 Choice of three guided tours (see section cultural events):
· Fairs, Peddlers and Merry- go-rounds. Old Parliament building
· Toy Exhibition at the “Stathmos” Museum of Childhood,
Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation
· Historical Centre of Nafplion
21:00 Farewell Reception at the Folk Art Museum of the Peloponnesian
Folklore Foundation (PFF), sponsored by the PFF.
Traditional songs and dances performed by the Dance Group of the
Association of Friends of the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation.
Saturday 12 July
09:00-15:00 Optional excursion to the Tiryns Fortress and the
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus.
Cultural Events
The conference participants are invited to visit the following exhibitions operating during the days of the conference. There will be guided tours to these exhibitions and to the Historical Centre of Nafplion on Friday 11 July 19:00-20:00. Please sign up at the conference reception desk to be included in the tour of your choice.
1. Exhibitions:
a) Fairs, Peddlers and Merry- go-rounds. Old Parliament building, ground floor.
The Childhood, Toys and Games Department of the Benaki Museum, will reconstruct a Greek early 20th century fair, complete with toy stalls and merry-ground.
Curator: Ioanna Chatzopoulou, Benaki Museum
With the contribution of: Maria Argyriadis, Despina Karakomninou, Tzeni Maliariti Chara Ioakeimoglou, Childhood, Toys and Games Department, Benaki Museum, and the assistance of: Popi Kalkounou, Head of Educational Programmes Department, Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation.
b) Moroccan Children’s toys seen through the eyes of Nafpliote Children. Museum of Childhood “Stathmos”, Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation, National Railway Station Park.
An exhibition portraying representations of Moroccan children’s toys created by the Nafpliote children participating in the Educational programme on play among the Anti-Atlas Mountain children in Southern Morocco.
Curator and programme animator: Jean- Pierre Rossie, University of Ghent, Belgium
Contributors: Popi Kalkounou, Head of Educational Programmes Department, Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation and the children participating in the educational programme.
2. Tour “The Historical Centre of Nafplion”.
A tour of the historical buildings and monuments of Nafplion organized by Natassa Vassileiou archaeologist, National Archaeological Service and Maria Velioti-Georgopoulos, social anthropologist, Department of Theatre Studies, University of the Peloponnese.
We are grateful to the following institutions and individuals who have supported the preparation of this conference:
Co-organizers: Department of Theatre Studies, University of the Peloponnese, DEPAN (Cultural Department of the Municipality of Nafplion), Cultural Organization O.P.A.N.A.A.R.
Collaborating Institutions: Center for Hellenic Studies- Harvard University, Department of Childhood, Toys and Games, Benaki Museum, Municipal Music School of Nafplion “K. Nonis”, Τhe Association of Friends of the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation.
The Old People’s Home “Pronoia Maria K. Radou”.
Sponsors: British Toy and Hobby Association (BTHA), Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive (E.L.I.A), Iaso General Hospital, OPTIKA Manto Kapetanopoulou.
Volunteers: George Theodorou (Design of conference logo, poster and programme cover).
George Georgopoulos (Adaptation of map of Nafplion).
D. Hasapis and the Cleaning Company “Lampsi” (cleaning of the Department of Theatre
Studies).
Natassa Vassileiou (tour guide “Historical Centre of Nafplion”).