Play as a “crevice” in the space of the city: the Spielraum

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Published: Jul 27, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/χπ.1403
Keywords:
child play city urban space design practice
Γαρυφαλλιά Κατσαβουνίδου (Garyfallia Katsavounidou)
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8244-1106
Abstract

In an attempt to critically investigate the relationship between childhood and urban space, the introduction of the concept of play – a concept ontologically significant for the human condition, as shown in the works of philosophers such as Kostas Axelos and Hans Georg Gadamer – constitutes a form of tactical use of public space and as a constituent of its mental image for the child. Thus, research was led beyond prescribed scientific discourses towards the formation of a three-fold research subject, that of “child, play, city”, or Spielraum, a new concept to express this triptych. The Spielraum becomes the diagrammatic description of an “other” world, a world in which the spirit of play, of freedom, of creativity, now marginalized by the technocratic production of city space, will guide design; where the city will be taking care of children, because ”otherwise it would be unworthy of being called a city“, to use Aldo van Eyck’s words; and where design will work together with pedagogy to promote new principles and new values, confirming Henri Lefebvre: “there can be no different society without a different space”.

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