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The Architecture of the Folk Game: The Floor is Lava

The Architecture of the Folk Game: The Floor is Lava

An academic paper exploring how physical architecture encodes childhood folk games

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    “how do the folk games of childhood begin? The paper argues that children's folk games like The Floor Is Lava aren't just passed between kids on playgrounds but instead can be independently invented in multiple places at once because the physical architecture of a space essentially encodes a game waiting to be discovered.”

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