Re-scripting the Playground: Basic Design as a Method for Spatial Reinterpretation
學年 115
學期 1
發表日期 2026-09-05
作品名稱 Re-scripting the Playground: Basic Design as a Method for Spatial Reinterpretation
作品名稱（其他語言）
著者 Ting-Yi Chu
作品所屬單位
出版者
會議名稱 2026 JSBDA in Hamamatsu International Invitational Exhibition.”
會議地點 Shizuoka, Japan
摘要 This study proposes “playground re-scripting” as a basic design practice for spatial reinterpretation. Rather than viewing playgrounds only as recreational facilities, the research explores how existing playground elements can be re-read, reorganized, and transformed into new spatial experiences through playful design interventions. The project was conducted within an undergraduate course on Learning Environment and Instructional Design. Fifteen university students collaborated with six elementary school children with diverse learning characteristics. Instead of constructing new facilities, students worked with an existing school playground, including hills, tunnels, pathways, geometric markings, climbing structures, and topographical changes. The aim was to explore how basic design could activate the latent potential of everyday environments. The design process included four stages: observation, interpretation, re-scripting, and testing. Students first observed children’s movement, hesitation, attention, and interaction within the playground. They then analyzed the formal and spatial characteristics of the site, such as slope, enclosure, boundary, rhythm, direction, and sequence. Based on these observations, students introduced new rules, narratives, and actions to transform familiar playground structures into spatial mazes, exploratory routes, navigational systems, role-playing settings, and movement-based challenges. The findings suggest that playgrounds contain hidden design possibilities that often remain unnoticed in everyday use. Through re-scripting, a tunnel became a transitional passage, a hill became a landscape of exploration, a pathway became a narrative route, and geometric markings became cues for movement and perception. These transformations were achieved not through physical reconstruction, but through the reinterpretation of spatial relationships, bodily movement, and user experience. This study argues that basic design is not limited to the production of new forms. It can also function as a method for discovering, interpreting, and activating the spatial qualities of existing environments. By shifting from form-making to form-reading and form-re-scripting, the project expands the role of basic design in design education. The concept of playground re-scripting highlights how playful thinking can transform everyday spaces into sites of exploration, perception, and meaning-making. It offers a framework for connecting basic design, environmental observation, embodied experience, and creative learning.
關鍵字 Playful Mind; Basic Design; Spatial Reinterpretation; Playground Re-scripting; Design Education
語言 en_US
收錄於
會議性質 國際
校內研討會地點 無
研討會時間 20260905~20260906
通訊作者
國別 JPN
公開徵稿
出版型式
出處 2026 JSBDA in Hamamatsu International Invitational Exhibition.
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機構典藏連結 ( http://tkuir.lib.tku.edu.tw:8080/dspace/handle/987654321/129819 )