Playdate #2
This was a one-hour self & group-initiated playdate, inviting participants to engage in a fun, adrenaline-packed playground session. We plunged into the pure nostalgia of childhood games, imaginative play, and experiential freedom of playful movement. From modern science, such as neuroscience and psychology, to the work of Carsten Höller,
Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam, Numen, Adam Kalinowski, and Tomás Saraceno, the criticality of physical play is evident in the socio-physical-cognitive development of children and in the biological & psychological resets of adults. It boosts playful exploration and creative expression in life and the every day.
BEFORE
Through free-play and simple rule-based childhood games, this project aims to break the self-imposed “rules” of daily life, through the “rules” of play by embracing improvisation, freedom of movement and space exploration as a practice-led approach. From child-like movements like crawling, jumping, hanging, sliding, running, creeping, mimicking, rolling, tumbling, and falling as weirdly and unapologetically as possible, to childhood games like hopscotch, (freeze)tag, hide-and-seek, corner-corner, cut-the-cake, the-floor-is-lava, twister and tarzan; we explore parts of ourselves and others that otherwise would immediately think before engaging in play.
AFTER