8th ITRA World Conference, Paris 11,12,13 July 2018
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The Conference Program can be found here and the Book of Abstracts is here.

Conference Theme

The predominant theme for the 8th ITRA Conference was "Toys and Material Culture: Hybridisation, Design and Consumption".

Beyond toys, the conference explored the place of tangible objects and novel forms of material culture in play. What were the similarities and the differences, the relationships, between toys and other material devices, such as board games, cards, digital games and media-connected objects? Were there, in play, or in the trans-mediated toys themselves, new forms of materiality?

Three words summarized this topic:


In addition to the main theme of the conference, other topics relating to toys and material culture were welcome. This included, but is not limited to the following topics:

 

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