Nature as play material
Role: Design and play researcher
Client: MA project
Key themes: User reseach, play culture and play practices, material reseach, documenting interaction
Project:
The project researches the play practices and the production of play culture, that occurs around plant found in the urban lanschape. The research unfolds how very specific plants, have specific play types and interactions 'atteced'. Showing how playcultures and nature is intertwined.
Research results is presented as a collection of personal nature-play stories and explanations on how to use the wild nature found in urban space, to start a play interaction or activity.
Stories and quotes, is presented in combination with photo documentation of the plant after the play-interaction, and seeds of that specific plant. Mimicking the packeing form seed packets, useing this formant to invite others to plant and play.
