Research Question – Week 7
Version 9 –
How can we create an experiential, dynamic, biophilic free play space for children in order to nurture holistic development and provide a prototype for developing a child-friendly community space?
Research Question – Week 6
Version 8 – How can we develop a prototype of an experiential, dynamic, biophilic free play space for children in order to nurture holistic development?
Research Question – Week 5
Version 7- How can we develop a prototype of an experiential biophilic space for children by encouraging multi-sensory dynamic free play and interaction with nature in order to nurture imagination, creativity and achieve holistic development of children for providing a foundation for a child friendly community space in every neighborhood?
3 Statements
- Spaces for learn and free play for children should encourage social interaction between children and also with adults. A prototype of this space should be created in every neighborhood in order to benefit
- The methods I’ve used before and would like to use them for my research again are – Material research which would help me define experiential/ sensory spaces for children and Observational Methods which would help me to study the behavior of children and their play methods. Few more methods which I would use in this research are Field research, Case Studies, Photographic documentation, drawing, sketching, planning, Prototyping and 3D Visualization.
- Are the current play and learn methods giving enough freedom to children to explore? Can the new technological advancements be used positively for creating physically more experiential play and learn spaces for children? Are the current play and learn spaces stimulating all the different senses in children?
Research Question – Week 4
Version 6.4 – How can we encourage holistic development of children by re-conceiving spaces for them to be more experiential in order to nurture their natural creativity, dynamic free play and imagination for providing a foundation towards child-friendly community spaces?
Version 6.3 – How can we create experiential spaces for children which can encourage their natural creativity and freedom of play and learn in order to achieve holistic development of children so that our community spaces can be child-friendly?
Version 6.2 – How can we encourage holistic development of children by re-conceiving spaces for them which enables their natural creativity and freedom of play and learn in order to ensure a child-friendly community?
Version 6.1 – How can we rejuvenate spaces for children to encourage their natural creativity and exploratory free play in order to achieve good social, physical and emotional health of children so that our community can be truly child-friendly?
Research Question – Week 3
Version 5 – How can we create a sensory design of space for children which enables/liberates them to learn, play, nurtures their creativity and imagination in order to achieve holistic development for children?
Key words: Children, sensory design, liberates, creativity, imagination, holistic development
Research Question – Week 2 – Workshop
Version 4 – How can we create a physical sensory space for children by using materials and techniques which stimulate all their senses in order to achieve holistic development and encourage creativity, imagination and exploratory free play?
Version 3 – How can we create a physical sensory space for children by using materials and techniques which can stimulate all their different senses in order to achieve holistic development so that our community can be more child friendly and secured in the future?
Version 2 – How can we create (a prototype of a physical sensory space for children by using materials and techniques which can stimulate all their different senses while they play and learn in order to achieve holistic development of children so that our community/neighborhood can be more secured and child-friendly in the future?
Research Question – Week 2
Version 1: How could spaces for learn and play for children be more sensory/responsive in design?
Research Proposal
Liberating kids to fly through spaces: Exploring Design for Play
While there are a multitude of factors that shape the kind of adults we become, the architecture we encounter as children – be it the stacks in the library where you played hide-and-seek or the door handle you had to stand on tiptoes to reach – can have a great impact on your perspective of the world. When designing architecture for children, we are in a way moulding these future perspectives and therefore it should be dealt with sensibility. This research would delve into knowing – what spaces encourage learning? What plans will promote play? How can we create the right level of social interaction between ages? Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities. We, as architects have a responsibility to design spaces that enable the essential natural creativity and freedom of play, and nurture it.
The one thing universal about children is that no child is the same. The day-to-day ways in which a child uses space may differ significantly. The traditional square, isolated classroom has been often proven inefficient in the overall development of children. Spaces must be malleable, and must be able to adapt to any given situation. They must also be open, and have access to nature, as children are not meant to be restricted to the confines of our adult preconceptions of space. They should be able to interact with the architecture on their own terms. Over the past decade, there has been a growing consensus that children’s active play opportunities are declining, particularly in modern industrialized contexts. Free play is an essential and positive determinant of children’s social, physical, and emotional health. Ensuring opportunities for dynamic free play will be foundational to a child-friendly community. This paper will discuss methodological lessons from various case studies (multi-site) based on child friendly indoor and outdoor spaces. It will reflect the approach used to understand the differences between innovative spaces and conventional recreation spaces with respect to child-friendly design. It will explore the multifaceted nature of children’s play from the perspectives of parents, teachers and children relative to children’s interaction with the physical and social attributes of various child-friendly environments. Involvement of children themselves as researchers has been proven to be successful by conducting research workshops for children. Surveys by parents, educators and children themselves can also help in this research. A careful investigation of purported child-friendly places can reveal findings that can provide policy-makers and community stakeholders with viable documentation for future investments in children’s play and their holistic development. This study will provide insights and guidelines to design practices for creating better community spaces, institutes and play areas for children which encourage learning and help in sculpting the future.
Let’s begin a playful exploration in design with this citation – “From a child’s perspective, everything is an interactive surface with the potential to be sculpted, painted, draped, or molded artistically…. Their play is often a response to subtle variations in the places and sensations that surround them.” – Anita Rui Olds
