Playthings mediate play to transform our lives. Is there a science to this play stuff? Play Lives introduces visitors to a plaything DIY DNA system of icons, comprising 4 Design Disciplines (plaything categories: Image, Object, Body, and Space), 8 Play Types (ways of playing), and 7 Rhetorics of Play (the way play generates culture; its transformative agency). Connect the icons, make sense of PLAY LIVES. See how a plaything elicits play types to transform our world and culture. Feel there is more to it? Play the Joker icon, create new categories.