"Play and freedom to design"

"aedo-to is a design community. it facilitates the meeting between industry and designers"

The most recent edition of their publication, "Virtual Design - from face to interface" features only one live link - and that, very fortunately, is to an article called: "Play and freedom to design" by Augusto Grillo. I quote:

It is play that sparks creativity, creating contexts in which freedom, gratuitousness and passion produce their fecundating action.

Play fascinates and absorbs to the point of making us infinitely repeat our attempts to improve our performance, to create new paths, new ways to arrive, in our case, to the ‘right’ product, the most suitable solutions.

It is in this sense that play can enrich the design process, and that the concept of playfulness in design may justify more exhaustive study in this research area.

We may conclude that ‘play’, so necessary in that it precedes and gives rise to the creative act, like beauty, will save the world.

Yup. Couldn't have said it better. Play could, indeed, save the world. Until that time, may it make our new year newer, and happier.