Tuesday, 17 May 2011


1. The meaning and purpose of play differs between individuals and between situations. Play is always a rhetorical construction and the reasons why someone chooses to use the term 'play' to describe a certain range of behaviour depends on their wider values and objectives.
Very frequently, play is used to provide a contrast to other aspects of behaviour - what is done and how and why it is done - although the opposition itself has varying focus and dimensions. In general terms, 'play' is used as counterpoint to behaviour which is 'normal' - everyday, conventional, expected, calculated, practical, constant.
Play is defined not merely oppositionally but dialectically within everyday life and in a dialectical engagement with the inherently contradictory 'social needs' which life experiences reflect. Lefebvre identifies the dialectical tension underlying escape through play: escape is impossible, illusory, but this illusion in itself constitutes a perceptual and social reality. The concept of play embraces a variety of ways in which people test and transgress the limits of their social existence. In terms of play within the urban public realm, Lefebvre's critique of modern city planning suggest that play mean encounters with difference, encounters which contest the fragmentation and alienation of contemporary social experience. Play illustrates Lefebvre's view that the practices of everyday life are far richer and broader in scope than rationalism and morality can explain and provide for.

Typology of play forms (Caillois, 1961):
- competition (agon)
- chance (alea)
- simulation (mimicry)
- vertigo (ilinx)
Urban settings frame particular kinds of opportunities for each format of play.

Quentin Stevens: 'The ludic city: exploring the potential of public spaces', 2007

2. Παράλληλα με την καθημερινότητα του δρόμου:
Εύρεση σημείων που δημιουργούν και αντανακλούν διαφορετικά μοτίβο συμπεριφοράς και η σχέση τους με τον δρόμο:

_λευκό: σύνδεση των δύο πλευρών
(πεζογέφυρες, ισόπεδες διαβάσεις) και
στάσεις λεωφορείων (κύκλοι)
_μαύρο: καμία χρήση/πρόσβαση στην
απέναντι πλευρά

Επιλογή χώρων:

- η γέφυρα

- η στάση

- η διάβαση

- το στενό

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