Child Play City
Abstract
The paper attempts to negotiate the urban space under new conditions. The concept of space was redefined in terms of the dialectical relationship between environment – person, while the city is emerging as a complex system of relationships and interactions where possibilities get their own imaginary and real space. Child and play as potentialmovements meet or mix, searching to restore their relationship with the city space.
The research starts from childhood, as the most spontaneous and creative phase of human existence, as a move from a state of equilibrium to a next, from the I to theother, and at the same time, from the position of children in the city. By presenting data from the developmental and social sciences, we sought out the relationship which children are able to develop with the space, but also the quality of space that can satisfy this relationship.
The unprompted play, in its essence, as a gesture to the other and as an action that redefines space, comes to fill the child's lost relationship with the city, as it seeks opportunities to express itself and converse with reality, in the midst of its play.
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- THEMATIC FIELD ΙΙ & ΙΙΙ The multimodal intersection of urban and educational spaces & The city as a learning environment
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