Book Chapter

Playful perspectives and Everyday spaces : imagining a bus stop as an intergenerational contact zone

Abstract

Using a child’s perspective as an initial point of inspiration, this chapter explores ways the ICZ concept stimulates imagination and creativity in ways that are playful as well as practical. While ICZ should achieve the aims of generational inclusion, social belonging, and dwelling, their liveliness may also involve risk, flow, and possibility. I suggest that designing ICZ may be a matter enlivening public spaces where people “kill time,” even at lifeless bus stops, by introducing simple elements of play into their communicative ecosystems.

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Authors

Danely, Jason

Oxford Brookes departments

School of Law and Social Sciences

Dates

Year of publication: 2020
Date of RADAR deposit: 2024-08-12

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This RADAR resource is the Accepted Manuscript of Playful Perspectives and Everyday Spaces: Imagining a Bus Stop as an Intergenerational Contact Zone
This RADAR resource is Part of Intergenerational contact zones: Place-based strategies for promoting social inclusion and belonging (ISBN: 9780367189020) / edited by Matthew Kaplan, Leng Leng Thang, Mariano Sánchez, Jaco Hoffman (Routledge, 2020).