Maaike Lauwaert

I am a grant officer at the Mondriaan Foundation in Amsterdam for projects on visual arts, design and cultural heritage. I also work as an independent researcher and writer on new media. Most recently "The Place of Play" was published by Amsterdam University Press.

The Place of Play deals with changing producer/consumer relationships within the ‘participatory’ or ‘many-to-many’ culture. I have researched the many-to-many phenomenon within the context of traditional toys, computer games and participation games or Serious Games.