Research Idea: City Space as Play Space
In today’s digital age, modern technologies have provided various alternate modes of engagement that satisfy our need for play. These technologies, such as television, computers, social networking, and video games were developed as enhanced, exaggerated, or expanded versions of everyday life. Although these media technologies provide non-goal oriented engagement for adults, they are static and location dependent. By investigating the spatial, visual, social and perceptive qualities that these technologies offer and translating them back into the realm of reality, architecture can become interactive through these applications as enhanced, exaggerated, and expanded versions of the digital playspaces we immerse ourselves in. This new architecture can exist as the playspace for adults, and implanting this interactive architecture as a sequence of spaces into an urban context will allow physical activity, mental engagement, and visual stimulation to become an active part of everyday life.
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