The Playscapes of a Child's Imagination

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21450%2F21%3A00355705" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21450/21:00355705 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://docomomo2020.com/proceedings/" target="_blank" >http://docomomo2020.com/proceedings/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Playscapes of a Child's Imagination

Original language description

The paper deals with the outdoor spaces for children’s play which were created in the 1970s and 1980s across former Czechoslovakia. It describes the difficulties connected with playground construction under the centrally controlled state-socialist building industry and focuses attention on several atypical projects that sought to break free from the usual rigid praxis and installation of universal, standardised equipment. The aim is to shed light on possible approaches to the design of atypical playgrounds, achieved mainly through the personal commitment of the creators and inhabitants in “betterment initiatives” (a kind of “people’s brigade” organised as a part of building up the socialist state) or through cooperation between architects, sculptors, sociologists, and sometimes even journalists. The paper will present several exceptional projects that managed to create wholly unorthodox, conceptually and artistically well-thought-out playgrounds that also remembered to offer children something new and unusual, including enough space for their imagination and interpretation. The paper attempts to describe the circumstances around the creation of these playgrounds, which essentially lie somewhere between being a functional object and a work of art. It also looks at the current state of these sites and, unfortunately, the lack of any systemic form of heritage protection for them.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60402 - Architectural design

Project

<a href="/en/project/DG18P02OVV013" target="_blank" >DG18P02OVV013: Czech Architecture in the Eighties: Character, Identity, and Parallel Considerations against the Backdrop of Normalisation.</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

The 16th International Docomomo Conference Tokyo Japan 2020+1 Proceedings. Inheritable Resilience: Sharing Values of Global Modernities

ISBN

978-4-904700-78-5

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

1596-1601

Publisher name

Docomomo

Place of publication

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Event location

Tokio

Event date

Aug 29, 2021

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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