THESIS PROJECT

Adapting the City as a Playscape Alongside Children: 

Moving with Improvisational Play in Design Practice

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Through Play Culture, children are informally reimagining the functions and meaning of their environment. Children are acting as informal designers within their capacity for their play. 

 

I explore the design of infrastructure which can support the child’s capacity to reimagine space and effect it, celebrating their participation within the public realm. 

 

I build from the dwelling perspective. This puts emphasis on how design can emerge in a dialogue with place and people, through involved activity and specific relational contexts. 

 

Children’s Play Culture and particular capabilities are approached as a point of interest that can lead design development. Improvisational play is considred a method for design practice, with focus on the act of making as a means for collaborative communication. 

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Master Program in Child Culture Design

HDK-Valand Gothenburg University, Sweden

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