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which explores how and why video gaming culture became the domain of young men and boys. She teaches a class on “practical magic” in Florida theme parks. I know her from our days at the now-defunct Austinist blog.
We also talked about why there were so many buildouts of fictional worlds at SXSW, and she distilled the appeal of these spaces as “door stories,” invitations to walk through a door and emerge somewhere unexpected, like inThat tracks, as my trip through the portal at Roku City started with being handed a purple drink from a basket reading “Drink me,” and the entry into another story, theIt makes sense that there would be multiple “door stories” at SXSW this year.
Perhaps I can draw some inspiration from Thanh Pham, an event planner who is a self-described “curator of play.” When I ran into him at a SXSW, he said one of his most successful events was a P.E. class-themed party that involved sack races and dodgeball.
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