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• W913755688 abstract "A LEGO Convention VignetteIt was 10:00am Sunday morning and we watched as the public flooded into four hotel ballrooms transformed into exhibition halls. Insiders, nerds, geeks, and families with children comprised the registered attendees who kept the lobby bustling and the elevators moving. They studied replicas of a Quantas Airbus A380, a wooden structured Comet rollercoaster, Wayne Manor and Batcave, the Sears Tower, Neuschwanstein Castle, Ankor Wat, the Chapel at Mont Sainte- Michael, an aerial steam vessel Pelican, an operating Shay locomotive, and many other creations that filled the exhibit halls. Children and adults alike viewed the models in amazed delight. Complete strangers interacted openly about their shared experiences at an exhibited piece, or next to tables crowded with minifigure characters in scenes with science fiction settings or city architecture. Discussions of constructions encompassed various levels of sophistication, from admiration to complex analysis. We overheard the word awesome too many times to count. Most intriguing to us were the more playful fantasy and nostalgic cars, villages, castles, robots, vignettes and works of art like Containment (Figure 1) built by Tyler Clites and Nannan Zhang.The scene described above was from Brickworld 2010, a LEGO fan conference in its fourth year. Interest and participation in LEGO building has grown so that attendance registration for the convention has nearly doubled each year, reaching 800 in 2010. Much of the information that follows developed from conversations and interviews with builders exhibiting at the Chicago suburban conference hotel. For example, Clites and Zhang shared details on their collaboration during a lunch interview on their LEGO experience. Later in this paper we discuss the significance of their work as an exemplar of the playful constructions and interactions of the fans of LEGO.LEGO. The word may conjure up images of children excitedly opening giftpackages and eagerly spreading many small plastic pieces or in a frenzy of construction. Commonly, LEGO is analogous with toy or hobby. However, to a select group of adults and teens, the LEGO brick is a means for self and community identity. Many AFOLs (Adult Fans of LEGO) and TFOLs (Teen Fans of LEGO) communicate with each other through Internet sites and come together in person at conventions. Sometimes they gather in a regional LEGO User Group, (LUG) more often found in large cities located in developed countries. Some of the members of this community create, collaborate, and communicate about their constructions using a variety of social Internet sites with the source of their motivation the LEGO brick. Since the advent of the Internet, the A/TFOL population has grown exponentially, a phenomenon unexpected by The LEGO Group (Antorini, 2007).With computer technology omnipresent as part of the fabric of contemporary life, it is hard to resist the metaphors inherent in an A/TFOL phenomenon. The brick itself can be seen as a multidimensional pixel replete with unlimited possibilities. In 1974 the corporation LEGO Group calculated that the number of ways to combine six 2 × 4 LEGO bricks of the same color in a tower is 102,981,500. A/TFOL innovative use of the brick caused the LEGO Group in 2005 to realize that there are other ways to configure the same bricks and the number was recalculated to be 915,103,765 (Durhuus & Eilers, 2005). The reader can imagine the many factors that determine how each brick can be different. The brick as an object of choice, offers magnified possibilities to include the number of studs, a multiplicity of shapes, a myriad of sizes, a rainbow of 53 colors including transparent bricks, and vast qualities of surface. Together, the LEGO system combined with a creative imagination becomes a medium of expression.Historical Antecedents: Flow, Play Theory, Constructionism, and the BrickFrom personal experience of having our son in three different Montessori schools, we can attest to the value of manipulatives used in educational settings. …" @default.
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• W913755688 title "LEGO Brick as Pixel: Self, Community, and Digital Communication" @default.
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