Teacher Gamer Podcast - Dr. Olu Taiwo - Failure in Play Creates Story - Episode 4

Описание: Father, author, artist and Associate Professor at Winchester University and Honorary Associate Prof at UCL in Physical theatre, Acting and Movement, Dr Olu Taiwo joins us with a co-authored article with TG Podcast host Zach Reznichek called, "Converging Approaches is the Future of Education" check it out at
Academia DOT edu.

His book:
Taiwo, Olugbenja Olusola Elijah (2021). The Return Beat - Interfacing with Our Interface: A Spiritual Approach to the Golden Triangle. Peter Lang, New York.

https://www.amazon.com/Return-Beat-In...

“Players play with playwrights Plays to make Plays”

“How do we unlock the vast universe of landscape in the imagination of each individual”

Dr Olu Taiwo: Associate Professor at the University of Winchester. Olu teaches in Street Arts, Visual Development and Contemporary Performance in a combination of real and virtual formats. He has a background in Fine Art, Street Dance, African percussion, physical theatre and the martial arts. He has performed in national and international contexts pioneering concepts surrounding practice as research. This includes how practice as a research strategy can explore the nature of performance and the relationships between ‘effort’, ‘performance’ and ‘performative actions’ as they occur in different arenas. Consequently, his aim is through the use of practice, to propagate 21st century issues concerning the interaction between the body, identity, audience, street and technology in an age of Globalisation. His interests include: Practice as Research, Visual design, Movement, Theatre, Street Arts, New technology, Trans-cultural studies, Geometry, Philosophy and Religious studies.

Welcome to the fascinating world of Olu Taiwo. A life-long explorer of the stories our bodies tell us. movement, rhythm, character, narrative,
The big themes of today’s podcast are “play”, “failure”, “improvisation”, “story” and “Eudaimonia”. How failure through play is not only creative, it creates story. Where dice meet improvisation in role-playing games we are both in first and third person at the same time. We talk about cycles, adapting through intuition, surviving through physical technology, differentiating the levels of University teachers, exploring the concept of “Kung Fu” as “flowing skill”, playing a chaotic good paladin, deciding between pro basketball and forming a theatre company. As we go deeper into what is play, we start nerding out over the randomization of dice rolling, variables, control, accidents and playing roles and how that leads to understanding our place in the world - either through the control of “editing change” or being open to how uncertainty facilitates play as a way to grow. We get into how putting masks in museums is insulting and are imprisoning them as they lie dormant. And we get philosophical about how the historical shift to writing sat the human being down to favor cognitive activities reducing our engagement with the environment with our bodies, the rhythms of the body and listening to the rhythms of nature. Fascinating stuff! Come along as we playfully explore teaching skills, applied learning approaches and share many cultural perspectives – modern, Western, African, ancient - such as “Players play with playwrights’ plays to make plays” and “I am because we are, since we are therefore I am.” And other coded fractals from the past.

“As players, we act in plays: we play with players to make plays” – Olu Taiwo

“The common denominator is ‘play’. At the heart of everything I do is, how do we unlock the vast universe of landscape in the imagination of each individual?” – Olu Taiwo

“What writing does is it favors sitting down and cognitive activities; it does not favor engaging with the environment with your body, listening to the rhythms of the body and listening to the rhythms of nature.” – Olu Taiwo on why some Africans moved from the East to the West (Nigeria) when Nubians started to develop hieroglyphics.

His new book:
Egungun - Moving the Masks of our Ancestors, in: C. welch and J. Shadrack (eds) Religion, Death and the Senses. Equinox Publishing, Religion and the Senses Series (2024)
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