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WAÏF: Where Architecture ïs for children

Builders Of Worlds III

The Model | Palle Nielsen | Stockholm Moderna Museet | 1968

“My final goal is to find the ultimate form in which people can communicate with each other”. Palle Nielsen, 1968

“[…] The reason for making an educational exhibition at the Moderna Museet is the following: the debate about new art has increasingly developed into a debate about environment. The individual work of art is becoming less interesting. It is the context, the social implications that are moving to the foreground. […] A communicating environment that activates people is the logical outcome of this line of work… The idea is to further explore the following hypothesis: children’s patterns of play vary with changes in the physical framework for their play, and there is a positive connection between the degree of variation in the playing unit and the satisfaction of the children’s physical and sensory need. […] The frame itself is conceived as being built of wood, including many spatial formations and bridges. The frame will contain no fixed play functions – only the children’s use of it will determine its function. The frame is also aimed at making the space more unpredictable. […] Clothes for dressing up and paint will become an essential part of the sensory group experiences. In the same way, wood and tools will be provided with which to further process the frame. “

話の特集 1976年8月号