Children, play, and the built environment: What can we learn from co-creation and embodied cognitive science?

The Pavement and the Hospital Bed:Care Environments as Part of Everyday Life

“…They focus on how children as spacemakers (e.g., Loxley et al, 2011;Orrmalm, 2020) creatively use, adapt, and appropriate the environment in orchestrated and more happenstance ways. Furthermore, for the past few decades, (design) researchers have also concentrated on non-designated spaces as opposed to official provisions for children (Hackett et al, 2015;Jeli c et al, 2020;Pitsikali et al, 2020) (see Figure 1).…”

“…Designers and researchers of built environments commonly associated with children-as in the A+ ad-emphasize children's agency, e.g., their ability to "unlock" the possibilities the built environment has to offer (cf. Hackett et al, 2015;Jeli c et al, 2020). They consider children as social actors in their own right, who interpret, imagine, and use spaces; make and shape spaces for themselves; and reinvent settings adults made for them.…”