The students, Dhruv Kulkarni, El Pimentel, Letka Gowda, and Supratim Pait, participated in the summit, hosted at Rochester Institute of Technology March 14-17. This year’s theme was “PLAY: The Impact of Play on How We Create and Relate to the World.”

Students set out to answer the following questions, seeking to inform interdisciplinary and collaborative work.

• How are we — our mindsets, our approaches, our whole selves — different when we are at play?
• What do the structures and assumptions of board games, team sports, or role-playing games imply about who we are, how we think, and how we relate to others?
• What about the world of unstructured play—of just “messing around?”

Georgia Tech is a member of the Alliance for Art in Research Universities (a2ru),  a partnership of colleges and universities committed to transforming higher education to ensure the greatest possible institutional support for arts-integrative research, curricula, programs and creative practice between the arts, sciences, and other disciplines.

It is committed to supporting the growing body of high-quality scholarly and creative production most attainable when disciplines are free to experiment within and across their boundaries.