DOI: 10.19830/j.upi.2020.386
The Origin, Examples and Enlightenment of the Adventure Playground

Shen Yao, Liu Sai, Zhao Miaoxuan

Keywords: Adventure Playground; Playing Space; Children’s Psychological Illness; Children’s Rights; Children’s Participation; Child Friendly Cities; Natural Experience

Abstract:

Playing is an indispensable part for children’s growth so it is an important hardware measure to build children’s free playing bases for child-friendly cities. The adventure playground, as a representative place, plays a vital role in curing children’s psychological problems, cultivating children’s sense of responsibility, stimulating children’s crisis awareness and self-protection skills, which has a history of more than 70 years in foreign countries. However, it is still in the cognitive stage and in a blank state of practice in China. This paper starts with the analysis of the origin and core ideas of the adventure playground, focuses on the development of adventure playgrounds in Europe, the USA and Japan, and then deeply interprets the three typical cases of standing and non-conformity. Then, it infers three key inspirations: the design concept of “liberalization”, space elements of “naturalization” and place operation of “specialization”, which aims to provide reference for the empirical study of children’s public and welfare space in China.


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