This course will explore the role of play in natural and artificial worlds, both human and animal. Students will apply core concepts from mathematics and science to gain an understanding of the games that permeate Nature as well as those define human society, economy, and culture. In utilizing a broad variety of scientific approaches and disciplines-from cosmology to sports science to neuroscience-we will employ games and play as a lens to illuminate, analyze, and comprehend the natural and artificial systems that inform our dual existences as both thinking animals, Homo sapiens, and playing animals, Homo ludens. The course will employ interdisciplinary pedagogy and creative projects to engage student artists in the world in and beyond the classroom through an enhanced perspective of science and math.

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