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Rafael Fajardo

@rafaelfajardo.bsky.social
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designer, researcher, and educator. founder of SWEAT, a loose collaborative creating socially conscious games. co-curator of Dizzy Spell, an artist run project to exhibit artists' games. Faculty at the University of Denver in Art, Culture, & Technology. 🇨🇴

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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
My pleasure. I hope your journey through these is fruitful for you.
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Celia Pearce, Yazmin Kafai, Shira Chess, all have contributions and manifest a feminist praxis. The short book by Brenda Laurel, Utopian Entreprenuer is a reflection of her attempt to make games, play experiences, for girls that didn’t simplify nor pander.
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon, and Papert’s successor Mitchel Resnick have significant contributions to understanding play as analytical enquiry in young learners and how it can continue for a lifetime. Papert and Resnick have led the lifelong kindergarten group a MIT Media Lab.
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Brian Sutton-Smith’s The Ambiguity of Play is foundational and useful.
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Dr Kishonna Gray’s work is intersectional and powerful
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Mary Flanagan’s book Critical Play is top of my list
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Rev Abuelite Héctor Octavio [con acento] believes in you @mexicanity.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What you know in the industry as hospitality was corporations commodifying how we Latinos welcomed people into our households and made you feel accepted and cared for.
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NYTimes magazine gift article about the Guna people of what we now call the Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/m...
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They Kept Outsiders Away for 500 Years. Their World Is About to Change. (Gift Article)
My father dedicated his life to studying the Guna people of Panama, and they may soon allow unprecedented development through their land. I went on a trek through the jungle to find out why.
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reimagining the Cone of Possible Futures as: 1. Not a cone (too platonic) 2. With blurry edges (for uncertainty) 3. Non-contiguous (for happenstance and poorly understood causation) Formulated for my students and shared publicly for the first time earlier this year at PUCE Ecuador. Frijol Future.
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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Male Figure Pendant gold c. 500-1000 CE Tolima culture Colombia #handmade #gold #pendant #male #figure #jewelry #jewelrydesign #Tolima #culture #Colombia #ancientart #art #ancientjewelry #precolumbian #prehispanic #precolumbiangold #goldjewelry #ancientgoldjewelry #metropolitanmuseum #nyc
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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 29/08/2026
My niece and nephew insisted The Quiet Year be the first game we played when I arrived, declaring it the GOAT. And I’ve just read them the prompt for The Deep Forest and their minds are blown.
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#CriticalToys
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Some people really like them for classrooms & for sleeping areas because they are so silent. (I have two & can’t hear them at all.) You can also personalize yours with whatever color gaffer tape you want—mine are teal and neon green 🌬️ www.reddit.com/r/crboxes/co...
Row of DIY air filters with different color accents of gaffer tape holding in the filters
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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Three photos: 1. Plano two-level tackle box and a Provisional Press strapped to a light-weight hand-truck. 2. First level of tackle box holds tube of ink; wadded cotton rags; plastic covered magnets; nail brush; razor. 3. Second level holds furniture and reglets. Remote printing kit.
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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The opportunity to not only examine but print with some original surviving type can be invaluable for a better understanding of this vanishing cultural tradition, and it was incredibly cool to witness.
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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
For context, these forms of lead type were often not preserved, especially in places where Yiddish was printed less and less. There are still some letterpress printers working with Hebrew character letterpress (which Yiddish is printed in) but very few places still make lead type at all.
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
❤️✌🏽✊🏽🙏🏽
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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
American higher education is and feels so precarious so much of the time and still there are colleagues and friends who will nerd out about early 20th c lead Yiddish/Hebrew type with little notice and make my and a grad student researchers day.
Selecting type for a small test printing of a Hebrew character (Yiddish) poem title
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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
@rafaelfajardo.bsky.social is the best (kept trying to find him by his insta handle, oops)
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The most important democracy story of the day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Postmaster general says USPS won't deliver mail ballots if states don’t give Trump admin voter rolls
“You are going to make a decision that people cannot vote by mail. That’s unacceptable," one senator told the postmaster general.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
“The Heart’s Refusal to Harden” by Lisa Forbes. Just published. Open Access by Play Story Press: playstorypress.org/books/play-a...
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Play and The Heart’s Refusal to Harden – Play Story Press
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
EDP was itself an evolution of two programs; Digital Media Studies, and Electronic Media Arts Design. This is an evolutionary measure in a time of contraction and existential uncertainties in higher education
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
On July 1, 2026 We launch the Art, Culture, and Technology program within the School of Art and Art History at the University of Denver. This also signals the closure of the Emergent Digital Practices program which had commenced in 2012.
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
We played a game I created (and letterpress printed) for the Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum’s event “Talk With Your Mouth Full” today.
On the left third of image are many wooden tile from Scrabble in a plastic bag. Balance of image is a printed list of instructions for a multi-player word game. The rules read: “given one-thousand scrabble tiles and up to fifty humans gathered at the Black Cube headquarters… take ten tiles. talk to people. compare tiles and collaboratively compose words for peace, democracy, and inclusion. use each tile only once. trading or swapping a maximum of two tiles per person is okay. single words, phrases, and short sentences are welcomed. share your co-authored words with us please. ‘Talk With Your Mouth Full 2026’”Two hands belonging to one person arranging tiles on top of two copies of the game rules from previous image. The Spanish word “quiero” is spelled out in tiles just above and right of center. The words “use ripples” are spelled in lower half. The words “we all feel fine” are spelled out in scrabble tiles. They are arranged so that the “F” and “L” serve more than one word each. The bi-lingual text “try everyone ‘a bailar cumbia todos’ stress free” is spelled out in tiles.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
If you're looking for resources to help you throughout your indie publishing journey, I've got a handy page of links all set up. Updated it today, too! rebeccacrunden.com/resources-fo... Also, if you have services for indies and want to get on the page, let me know! [ #booksky ]
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Resources for Indie Authors
I thought I’d share some links and communities for indie authors looking for resources as I know it can be difficult to even know where to start. Starting off without a reader base makes getting on…
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Verminsteel isn't in the Summer Sale, because I'm developing it right now, but it's a game where you're a bird with a broadsword who kicks thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun, so if you think that's cool maybe wishlist, RT and tell your friends? store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/...
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
#tdih 1969 Mexican-American students in Denver walked out to demand: - more bilingual classes, - Chicano history & literature in curriculum, - smaller class sizes, & - an end to advising students to fight in Vietnam. They were brutally attacked by police. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/me...
Denver police attack students on the steps of West High School on March 20, 1969
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Contemporary Art In Situ @conartinsitu.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
blackcube.art/twymf Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum’s Talk With Your Mouth Full brunches uplift and highlight Denver metro area artists. Here are promotional images in advance details at the link.
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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
It’s the one year anniversary of Binding Media!!!
A book with a white cover. Most of it its taken by a cursor arrow constructed with, on one side, colorful hand stitches in Japanese stab binding style, and on the other side with pixelated lines in vapor wave palette. It reads: Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literatures from across the Americas.
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Venn diagrams that didn’t make it into my presentation 3 of 3
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Venn diagrams that didn’t make it into my presentation 2 of 3
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Venn diagrams that didn’t make it into my presentation 1 of 3
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
@gscpp.bsky.social for Yasheng SHE
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
@gscpp.bsky.social Wynter’s homo narrens which may suggest a homo ludens
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
@gscpp.bsky.social with sincere apologies to Aaunterria for my fumbling fingers
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
for Dylan (sic?)
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
for Kissel
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
@gscpp.bsky.social Deleuze & Guattari’s emergenge of game objects from assemblages
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Rafael Fajardo @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
@gscpp.bsky.social for Josh Zimmerman
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