Street Play
The rise of the use of motorised vehicles and increase in parental anxiety has made the cityscape more adult centric, and less friendly for children to play than it has been for previous generations.
Street training
At the Glasshouse Young Spacemaker Workshop, I met Lottie Child. She devises urban explorations and produces guides for active engagement with urban places exchanging expertise and knowledge on the notions of freedom of movement and anti social behavior, in increasingly sanitized and controlled urban places.
"Street Training develops your own proactive strategies around inhabiting urban streets."
Urban exploration involves Research and Intervention:
Research is wandering, talking, looking, thinking, and Intervention might include talking to strangers, drumming on street furniture, climbing trees, visiting people, being asked to leave shops, lighting a fire, sitting around, tracing magic symbols on the ground, looking out for the dog with one eye, kissing, foraging for fallen fruits, listening to the sounds of the night, shouting and smelling flowers.
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