Dancing with strangers: observing play in an English urban square

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hattie Coppard
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Transitional Phenomena ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Child Friendly ◽  
Urban Square

This is a study of children’s play in an urban square as documented and shared through the lens of a dancer, a writer and a painter. The artists’ diverse modes of observation, perception and description revealed profound differences in how children and adults inhabit space and drew attention to the effect of children’s play on the culture of a public square. Using Ingold’s (2007, 2011) concept of lines of movement, Winnicott’s (1971) theory of transitional phenomena and Massey’s (2005) ideas on public space, these findings are discussed in relation to movement and presence, objects and imagination, co-existence and co-formation. The chapter explores how engaging with creative practitioners in the research process, and paying attention to subjective and embodied ways of knowing, can offer something more to traditional methodologies used to observe and represent play, and how this can add to the debate on the management and design of a child-friendly public realm.

scholarly journals Practice-based Research in Children's Play

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies

This book presents a collection of research projects carried out by experienced practitioners in the play sector in the UK and US who were also students, graduates and staff on the University of Gloucestershire’s postgraduate programme in children’s play. It offers a range of approaches to researching children’s play and adults’ roles in supporting it, including some that move beyond traditional qualitative approaches to explore what more might be said through post-qualitative methodologies. It also offers multi- and trans-disciplinary perspectives on children’s play and adults’ relationships with it, presenting students and practitioners alike with diverse perspectives to complement the dominant orthodoxy of developmental psychology. The book shares reflections on the research process; explores issues concerning researching children’s play and adults working to support it; showcases a diversity of contexts and sites of investigation into children’s play; and draws on diverse disciplinary perspectives on children’s play and adults’ relationships with it. Topics include adults’ memories of their own childhood play; adults’ role in the co-production of spaces where children can play, including adventure playgrounds, out of school clubs, children’s zoos, children’s museums and public space; perspectives on the nature and value of adventure playgrounds and playwork; therapeutic approaches to playwork; playwork and wellbeing; supporting the play of severely disabled children and young people; play and contemporary art practice; children’s use of technology in a playground; and children’s play in public spaces. Research methodologies include ethnography, auto-ethnography, oral histories, participatory action research, case study; performative, narrative and non-representational approaches.

scholarly journals The Urban Square

1969 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Wiley
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Urban Square

Emerging technologies challenge the conceptualization of contemporary urban public space, both in where it is located and of what it consists. With the advent of the digital medium and the internet, the public realm is expanded, dispersed and reconnected in new ways. At the same time, technologies profoundly impact the realization of apparently conventional public spaces, as architects' design process and building materials undergo technological renovations, staged in the digital medium. This paper explores how the public square can be reconceptualized as a place of convergence of the digital and physical domains.

The State of Play: Disadvantage, Play and Children's Well-Being

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 537-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Disadvantaged Children ◽  
Children’S Play

There is little research that explicitly compares the lives of children from different social backgrounds, particularly with regard to their freedom, safety, and use of public space. Drawing on the findings of a participatory research project with 42 children from different socio-economic backgrounds, this article shows how and why children's play differs depending on their social background. It also highlights the importance of street play in the lives of disadvantaged children, arguing that they engage in street play as a consequence of having less space and fewer alternatives, and yet their opportunities for play are further restricted due to local development and community ‘policing’. The article calls for the safeguarding of open public space, and an increased recognition of the importance and value of street play. Finally, it points out the contradictions in government policy regarding children's play and well-being.

Traditional European Squares in Contemporary Urbanism: Dubrovnik's Medieval Squares

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-73
Author(s):  
Tigran Haas
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Urban Places

Buildings alone do not matter, it is only the ensemble of streets, squares, and buildings and the way they fit together that comprises the true principles of good urbanism and place making. One of the main rules of good urban design is the quality of the public space. This paper analyzes the importance of creating & maintaining a true public square in contemporary urban condition, as one of the built environments' pillars for sustaining social and cultural identity. Criticism has been posed towards the (neo) romanticizing the importance of European squares (as some critics would call it “Postcard Squares”) in everyday life and contemporary town planning. Movements such as New Urbanism, which promote good urban design have not put squares that high on their urban design agendas. Also the usage of the historic European city's public realm model - the square - as the important ingredient for all urban places has not been forthcoming. To investigate this phenomena, and facilitate the discourse, The Square of the St. Blaise Church (Luza Square) and the Gunduliceva Poljana Square in the Old City of Dubrovnik, are analyzed and reflected upon through various data collection, theory reflections and urban design evaluation methods, such as Garham's Sense of Place Typology-Taxonomy. If cities have livable and vibrant social spaces, do residents tend to have a stronger sense of community and sense of place? If such places are lacking, does the opposite happen?. This paper seeks out to answer these questions. Finally the paper also looks at how the phenomenon of creating good social spaces through creating ‘third places’ is achieved and confirmed in the squares of Dubrovnik.

scholarly journals Etnografando a praça: os primeiros obstáculos de uma etnografia

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (39) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Da Costa Araújo ◽  
Antônio Mauricio Dias da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Public Square

No presente trabalho discutiremos as motivações para a realização desta pesquisa, bem como as inquietações que sugiram com a inserção no campo. Após esta reflexão, analisamos o desenvolvimento da pesquisa em um contexto urbano, que se caracteriza como familiar, por conta de visitas feitas à praça antes do estabelecimento da pesquisa e do papel de pesquisadores. Ao longo do texto, apresentamos o objeto de estudo e as complexidades na construção do percurso metodológico a partir do ingresso investigativo no campo.Palavras-Chave: Etnografia. Praça do Carmo. Espaço Público.Ethnography in a public square: the first obstacles of a fieldworkAbstractIn the present work, we approach the reasons for undertaking this research process, as well as the doubts related to entering the field. After this, we analyze the development of the fieldwork in an urban context, a public square, assumed as a familiar spot formerly visited by us, at a time the research and the researchers’ role were not planned. Throughout the text, we present the object focused and the complexities in the composition of a methodological course started by the insertion in a field of research.Key words: Ethnography. Carmo Square. Public Space. 

scholarly journals Arquitecturas para el juego en Central Park: aventuras contra la apatía

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Juan José Tuset Davó
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Concrete Wall ◽  
Central Park ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Specific Object ◽  
Natural Separation

Children's play architectures propose new uses for urban public space. The intervention of the New York architect Richard Dattner with his "Adventure playground" (1967) in Central Park creates a children's play environment from formal anarchy in which children can imagine their own ways of playing. The proposal of elemental architectures that encourage children to be adventurous was opposed to the apathy inherited from the conservative institutionalized design. Structures linked by a slightly winding concrete wall define living and playing spaces by creating a natural separation of the children's and the adult's environment. The concatenation of iconic forms of children’s plays aims to choreograph the child's personal learning experiences. Dattner's project is the architectural expression of a bold play program. It represents the rebellious attitude of young architects of advanced ideology. It symbolizes the radical change in thinking about the design of the public playground. It considers the need to involve the community in the project phase and is a contribution to the artistic avant-garde movements that vindicated the specific object of minimal expression.

scholarly journals Karakteristik Taman Menteri Soepeno sebagai Taman Ramah Anak di Kota Semarang

Ruang ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
P Prihantini ◽  
Wakhidah Kurniawati
Keyword(s):  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Child Friendly

The child-friendly city is a city that gives attention to and recognizes the existence of children's rights, including the provision of children's play facilities. Public facilities that can reflect recognition of children's rights are parks. The purpose of this study is to find out the characteristic of Menteri Soepeno park as a child-friendly park in Semarang city. This park is expected to be a reference for the development of child-friendly parks in realizing a child-friendly city. The method used in this research is quantitative with scoring analysis. The result showed that Menteri Soepeno park was not child-friendly, some improvements were needed so this park could be one of facility that supports the realization of a child-friendly city in Semarang. 

Knowing and Feeling in Children's Play

1995 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 854-855
Author(s):  
Karin Lifter
Keyword(s):  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play
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