A whole being process of coming to understand ourselves and our world by making ourselves intelligible to each other with all of our potentialities and limitations, in a specific series of events with specific precondition. It repositions learning and knowing from an individualistic stance where knowledge is derived through self-reflection, to one where learning and knowing are embodied and cognitive, constrained by time and space, and agency is distributed throughout human and nonhuman actors.

Seeking to go beyond self-reflection and the limitations of reflexive methodologies which not only sustain an illusion of sameness within categories but are built from an assumed separation between the knower and the known. Instead of conceptualizing ourselves, participants, and the encounter as fixed subjects that can be represented, diffraction opens up an event that enfolds the inquirer, place, space, and time, and the people involved as a happening. It illustrates waves that overlap, resist, change, and become something new when they intra-act with each other. 

Play is a way of knowing and being that moves beyond language and the intersections between players and spectators to consider all materially-discursive affects. It is not a thing or event but rather a phenomenon that is intra-active and responsive to space, matter, bodies, gestures, time, and so forth. It draws us in, overtakes us, and takes us out of ourselves. It allows intra-action of mind/body/spirit/environment that does not create a hierarchy and does not center the human or assume a separation between humans and nonhumans.

Taking responsibility for creating positive change through collective intra-action. This positive change depends on small movements that occur in every
decision, in every gesture that each of us make — over and over.