A more playful museum: exploring issues of institutional space, children's play and well-being

Autor: Lester, Stuart, Strachan, Ailsa, Derry, Charlotte
Zdroj: International Journal of Play; January 2014, Vol. 3 Issue: 1 p24-35, 12p
Abstrakt: Manchester Museum has been participating in an experiment to look at ways of making museum space more playful and by doing so to enhance children's well-being. The aim of this paper is to look at the design, implementation and changes occurring from participation and to set this in a wider discussion around children's presence in traditional museum space, notions of playing and the slippery concept of ‘well-being’. Findings from the action research/appreciative inquiry approach developed for this project suggest that increasing attentiveness and sensitivity to children's moments of play throughout the museum has led to co-producing spaces where bodies, symbols, time and materials can take on a different purpose and form, and where temporarily life is a little more pleasurable for everybody.
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