Paula Simons: Accidental Beach steals Edmonton's hearts

The morning after I visited Edmonton’s accidental beach, I happened to catch a snippet of a CBC Radio interview with game designer Ian Bogost. He’s a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and author of Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, The Uses of Boredom and the Secret of Game.
I was deeply struck by something Bogost said.
“It’s not exactly right to think of fun as pleasure. It’s something slightly different. It’s rather the experience of find