Space, People, Interventions and Time (<scp>SPIT</scp>): A Model for Understanding Children's Outdoor Play in Post‐Disaster Contexts Based On a Case Study from the Triple Disaster Area of Tohoku in North‐East Japan

Woolley, Helen; Kinoshita, Isami

doi:10.1111/chso.12072

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“…Some sites have a volunteer play program but most sites hold these activities inside in a meeting room, not outside. It is proposed that in such circumstances, four key factors affecting play—space, people, intervention and time—should be considered for the betterment of children’s environments (Woolley and Kinoshita, 2014) [ 10 ].…”

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“…Initially, there was no public program to provide playgrounds and promote children’s play for their health. One year after the disaster, children in temporary housing had little, if any, play space (Woolley and Kinoshita, 2014) [ 10 ]. Four important factors in support of children’s play were identified: Space, People, Interventions and Time.…”

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Children’s Play Environment after a Disaster: The Great East Japan Earthquake

Kinoshita

Woolley

2015

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The Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, together with the subsequent tsunami and nuclear power station accident, damaged a wide area of land. Children who experienced these terrible disasters and the post-disaster situation are still suffering in mental, physical and social ways. Children’s play is an activity that they undertake naturally and which can help them recover from such disasters. This paper addresses the role of play, adventure playgrounds and other play interventions, including play buses, for the health triangle, which addresses mental, physical and social issues of children after the disasters. These interventions were shown to be effective because children could express their stress. This included play for their mental health, different body movements for their physical health and communication with playworkers and new friends for restructuring their social health. These three aspects relate to and support each other within the health triangle. An increase in childhood obesity and lack of exercise is an additional health issue in Fukushima. For a balanced recovery within the health triangle, more play environments should be provided and some improved. A child’s right to play should be implemented in the recovery stage after a disaster.

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Children’s Play Environment after a Disaster: The Great East Japan Earthquake

Kinoshita

Woolley

2015

Children

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“…Some sites have a volunteer play program but most sites hold these activities inside in a meeting room, not outside. It is proposed that in such circumstances, four key factors affecting play-space, people, intervention and time-should be considered for the betterment of children's environments (Woolley and Kinoshita, 2014) [10].…”

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The Role of Play in Children’s Health and Development

Navidi¹

2016

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“…This article discusses a project that explored the design of video games for hospitalized children. It relates to a body of research that has shown how play has therapeutic properties for children’s health and well-being, particularly in times of adversity such as natural disasters (Bateman et al, 2013; Mutch, 2014; Walker et al, 2010; Woolley and Kinoshita, 2014) and hospital settings (Tonkin, 2014; Weldon and Peck, 2014). Given this established connection between play and well-being, the project discussed in this article started with the premise that there would likely be benefits in designing play specifically for children living in adverse contexts.…”

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“…Given this established connection between play and well-being, the project discussed in this article started with the premise that there would likely be benefits in designing play specifically for children living in adverse contexts. This was considered especially pertinent at the time of the project because children living in adverse conditions, such as after large-scale natural disasters, are often left without play equipment (Woolley and Kinoshita, 2014) or, in the case of hospitalized children, using digital games that were not designed specifically to meet their needs.…”

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Designing play for dark times

Yamada‐Rice

2017

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

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This article reports on a knowledge-exchange network project that had the core aim of informing the development of a video game for hospitalized children. In order to do this, it brought together hospital play specialists, academics and representatives from the digital games industry to co-produce knowledge that could be used in the future production of such a product. The project came about in relation to having identified a lack of research about and actual physical-digital games designed specifically for children living in adverse (‘dark’) times. This is despite the fact that there is a substantial body of research that has shown how play is beneficial for helping children make sense of what is happening to them, and thus results in better mental, emotional and physical well-being. The article describes a selection of the knowledge-exchange presentations and activities that were used throughout the project. Specifically, these activities used art-and-design-based methods as a means of knowing through making. The methods are discussed in relation to how they generated knowledge that responded to the objectives of the project. These were, firstly, to allow children to express emotions about their illness and/or being in hospital; secondly, to offer information on the hospital experience; and, finally, to develop a design that could cross physical and digital platforms with a space for open-ended child-directed play. As the overarching intention of the project was to generate knowledge across the stakeholders, the project ended by materializing the core findings from the project into a paper prototype of a game on which a hypothetical digital-physical version could be based.

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Space, People, Interventions and Time (SPIT): A Model for Understanding Children's Outdoor Play in Post‐Disaster Contexts Based On a Case Study from the Triple Disaster Area of Tohoku in North‐East Japan

Cited by 10 publications

References 7 publications

Children’s Play Environment after a Disaster: The Great East Japan Earthquake

Children’s Play Environment after a Disaster: The Great East Japan Earthquake

The Role of Play in Children’s Health and Development

Designing play for dark times

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