Christine Lee: Can play itself be a medium to drive broader social change?
Tracks
Urban Planning & Design
| Wednesday, June 25, 2025 |
| 1:35 PM - 2:40 PM |
Details
For children, play is simply play, it does not need to be assigned additional meaning. The responsibility of advocacy lies with us, the advocates, to carefully design and delicately facilitate these initiatives in an Asian society like Taiwan, where play is often undervalued.
This study builds upon a decade of advocacy for play-friendly outdoor environments in Taiwan and examines cases from the past two years in which play has been leveraged as a medium to advance child-centric urban design initiatives. These include advocacy for child-friendly street design, family-friendly museum planning, and other related efforts. Through these cases, we see a more comprehensive vision emerge of an inclusive, child-friendly, and play-infused urban childhood.
Speaker
Christine Lee
Cofounder and Chairperson
Beyond Playmaking
Play Alchemist
Biography
Christine Lee, 10-year advocacy of children’s rights, cofounder and current chairperson of Beyond Playmaking.
She has written 'Retrieval of Public Play Space for Children in Taiwan' in "The City at Eye Level for Kids", 'Play Acupuncture by TWPfC', 'A Mother can Motivate A Thousand More' in "Inspirational Playful" and 'Let Future Decides - Designing Play Spaces for, with and by Children' in "45 Ideas for Ukraine Cities". Beyond Playmaking has recently hosted child-friendly mini city at Great Fun Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the presidential office building, a ‘Play Project WITH CHILDREN’ Wide Open School in Taoyuan Children Art Musem, and cohosted many child-friendly street projects and projects of reimagined public spaces for/with children.
