One day Pop-up intervention deploying a series of playful elements, made with discarded material.  

Activity carried out within aUPA Project framework.

August /2.017

 

Facilitate and enhance child rearing beyond the domestic sphere and personal networks by developing a new typology of outdoor facilities designed to engage children and their caregivers in quality experiences in public spaces.

 

As part of the "Children's Day" celebrations, we participated in an event at Avellaneda Hospital organized by the Social Service of the Pediatrics Department. This activity was carried out in several of its Waiting Rooms.

 

Pop-up intervention transforming the Waiting Room instantly into a play space.

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When a person is waiting several reactions occur: boredom, anxiety, uncertainty, anger and in this case being in a hospital waiting room, adds discomfort, a pain.... but it happened that after participating in our proposal, several children said that their pains had disappeared!!

 

Play and fun as medicine, as a tool to heal, improve and transform.

 

This opportunity was also used for the dissemination of children's rights, in this case regarding play and recreational activities, detailed in Article 31 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child:

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1. States Parties recognize the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child, and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts. 

2. States Parties shall respect and promote the right of the child to participate fully in cultural and artistic life and shall encourage the provision of appropriate and equal opportunities for cultural, artistic, recreational, and leisure activities.

 

We are looking to develop proposals that allow us to transform the City we have into the city we want. Promoting and making visible all those common spaces that in many cases remain to be done.

 

This project is supported by three pillars:

 

01_The Temporary-Use approach for Urban Voids as public space

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02_The DIY Parenting friendly Pop-Up Urban Furniture production [aUPA Kits]

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03_The Parenting supporting networks generation

 

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Urban Void + aUPA Kit + Parenting Supporting Networks

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aUPA Space

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#UrbanismandGender

#CityandCare

#PedestrianMobility

#Placemaking

#TacticalUrbanism

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