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06 SIK-Holz® › Joint play
Joint
play
Socially shaping urban life
Playing together means spending time together, learning
from each other and understanding each other. Many
parents nowadays go to the playground with their more
than three years old children. On the one hand, it's about
spending time together. But it is also about moving around,
to use the free time for sports activities, because children
should also be able to play in "parent-free" zones. Another
aspect of the joint game is the interaction between the generations.
This is particularly important at a time when the
generations of a family no longer necessarily live together in
the immediate vicinity and do not see each other for long
periods of time.
Even if the social media make regular contacts possible here,
there is still no direct communication between the generations.
Contact with another generation is also a contact
with a different values, ideas and generation of people. In
playing together, interest and understanding arise for the
next generation.
Just as important as intergenerational contact is the
contact with children and people who are different. Of
course, they themselves do not feel "different". If not
caused by an accident, it is the normality for them and
they also want to be perceived as normal by other people.
This normality is set for both sides when everyone can
become active on a playground. Participation in the
public life of people with disabilities, whether due to age
or disability, is already regulated by many regulations and
action plans. But how can it look like in concrete terms,
and how can it be lived in the many places, where games
take place in public space? As always, the willingness of
the individual to approach each other is also important.
This will is born in childhood, because curiosity knows
no bounds.
We would like to create a framework for this and create
places that invite people to meet and play together and
strengthen a sustainable coexistence.