A function which appears at its best when a game is designed. Designing a model of reality requires, indeed, boith a deep understanding of the situation to be explored and the ability to select, among the multiple data, those that simplify it without losing any relevant aspect. Among the many issues tackled during the conference, participants debated about the use of GS in basic and higher education in relation to the developement of new technologies and in vocational and managerial training. The developement of studies and applications of GSs in numerous field in Italy received a great impulse from the above mentioned activities. Italian Scholars and researchers of various disciplines and professions belonging both to University or to public and private institutions became more and more often involved in GSs to face and solve a wider and wider range of issues.
Every playroom develops to the needs of the community where it is set.
Its attention is indeed devoted both to the request of the social and cultural reality it serves and to the individual users. The complexity of such a management has recently brought greater attention around the figure of the play-roms' operator. His training, apart from instructing him with 'technical' notions, must help him in understanding which attitude suits the users' needs best, how the play-room works and, above all, make him aware that it is a service basically created for children. Due to the typical lack of forecasting skills of the Ministry of Education regarding the number of teaching staff necessary to the system, these professional figures have never been appropriately implemented. The logic with wich they have been 'institutionalised' has been that of empolying redundant personnel.