I have used LEGO® and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® for many years now, for teaching, scholarship, with research students and for staff and educational development. In 2015 I was commissioned by the Higher Education Academy in the UK to produce a report on the use of LEGO® and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® in the creative arts:

Over the course of the pandemic I co-designed a new course with Micael Buckle, CEO of the Danish business and management consultancy Inthrface, to offer facilitator training for HE personnel online. We launched our specialised online LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® in HE facilitator programme in 2022 and are running this several times a year now.

Find out more about online LSP facilitator training here.

My Publications page reveals many of the things I have written about LEGO® and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, and said, as revealed in my page on Talks, Podcasts, Workshops. In addition, Chrissi Nerantzi and I dedicated a whole section to LEGO®-based techniques in our book The Power of Play: Creativity in Tertiary Learning (2019). Chrissi and I have since published two open source volumes with numerous contributors from fellow LEGO® user-educators to showcase practice across the disciplines.  You can find them here:

LEGO® for university learning: online, offline and elsewhere

LEGO® for university learning: Inspiring academic practice in higher education

This wonderful construction is artist Charlie Millar’s gate to his home, created, in his words, as a response to some dull gates around. He also expanded:

“…as a serious medium LEGO® made sense: colour arrangement, form, accumulation etc  It immediately felt the right way to pass a bit of lockdown, with all the earlier associations of countless happy hours rummaging through boxes. And we have some fun conversations as people pass by, mainly that LEGO® is just the best, and you are never too old.” (personal email)

As Charlie shows, and you no doubt know, there is a universe of LEGO® out there! There is also a world of difference between how LEGO® bricks can be used for play and education and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® as a method to explore complex issues.  Stephen Brookfield and I introduced both of these educational approaches in Engaging Imagination. We even used LSP principles to build and discuss models which reflected progress with our co-authoring. You can see how we got on in this archival piece with some of our videos.