The course will consist of 10 weeks of teaching, comprising lectures, reading groups, exercises and group work. There will be 8 lectures and 2 workshops given during those weeks.
The course will start with two theoretical lectures, followed by a workshop designed to help students come up with the concept they will be developing throughout the semester.
The following 7 weeks will be focused on different topics on play and design theory, and a workshop on film methodology.
The last 6 weeks of the course students are expected to finalize and test their hand-in assignments, with supervision from the course manager available.

It is mandatory that the final deliverable uses computing technology. However, students are free to use whatever technology they are comfortable with, from Arduino to HTML.

Final hand-in consists of:
- A prototype of a digital interactive object (service, game, website) that uses play as the central interaction conceptual model, exploring the notion of the good life, and
- A 3000 word individual reflection that uses the course literature to analyze the prototype as a case study, focusing on how that object appropriates the concept of play and utilizes it to better convey a model of interaction.
Prototypes can be made in groups, but examination will be individual. 

External examiner, 7-point marking scale, B6: Oral examination with production(s) but without time for preparation at the exam.
By the semester deadline, students must hand in:
- A prototype of a digital interactive object (service, game, website) that uses play as the central interaction conceptual model, and
- A 3000 word individual reflection that uses the course literature to analyze the prototype as a case study, focusing on how that object appropriates the concept of play and utilizes it to better convey a model of interaction.

The assessment is calculated as follows:
60% of the grade is awarded for the prototype and the written reflection.
40% of the grade is awarded for the oral exam.

The prototype is evaluated as follows:
- It has to clearly convey a playful approach, meaning that it has to encourage a degree of playfulness when interacting with it.
It has to provide an innovative approach to design conventions and methods based on play theory and the course literature.
It has to clearly embody a concept of the good life, and a clear way of exploring that idea through user interaction.
The individual reflection is evaluated as follows:
The student should identify and argue for the elements of play theory that are successful in the final, delivered prototype.
The student should identify and argue for the elements of the good life theory that are successful in the final, delivered prototype.
- The student should identify the problems that happened during the development process, reflecting critically about the design process.
- The student should use the course literature to illustrate, and argue for, the innovative and playful approach taken in the design and implementation of the prototype.

The oral exam consists of a 15 minutes max. conversation around one topic extracted from any of the texts of the course syllabus. The topic will be related to the students’ prototype, and there will be no time for preparation. The student will be evaluated based on the following elements:
- Familiarity with the course literature.
- Capacity to critically engage with the literature, showing a deep reading and understanding of the literature.
- Ability to answer the exam question using course literature and personal experience.