YOUR FORUM FOR PLAY, SPORTS UND LEISURE AREAS
Even the largest flat seldom provides enough space for all these things. Space for creative chaos, for loud yelling, for stamping children’s feet or for interaction with the elements. For those who need space for playing, in particular in the city, the playground is exactly the right place.
Friedrich Froebel (educationalist, 1782 – 1852) said: “Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul.”
This book is to help remind adults of the paramount importance that play space has for the human development and ensure that the needs of the youngest members of our society are catered for and find expression in the appearance of cities, which are characterized by the needs and ideas of adults, and that adequate play space is provided. The “play space” is to remind adults of the joy and love of life that these areas conveyed in their own childhood. The opportunity for our children to grow up this way must be preserved. It is thus a cognitive memorandum and not intended as criticism.
Of course, it covers only some of the play areas in our city and the spontaneous comments of young people to whom we presented these play areas clearly show that all spaces inspire creative thinking, imagination and play. We have specifically chosen and presented play spaces that can be places in any city. A certain recognition value, however, should nevertheless be preserved.
We, these are a communications designer and photographer, Andres Huth, and me, Klaus Korte, a social worker and, among other things, consultant for playgrounds.
Further information can be obtained from: Landeshauptstadt (State Capital) Düsseldorf, Jugendamt (Youth Welfare Office), Koordinator Familienförderung, Tel. +49-(0)211-89-95141
E-Mail: klauspeter.korte@stadt.duesseldorf.de
