AN IMAGINARY PLAYGROUND
00:15:04
Language: Dutch, sub. English
AD : Barbara Vignaux
Filmmarker : Floris Harteveld
animator of the game : Olga korosteleva
Thanks you :
Dynamo Eindhoven, Nicole Van Dijk, Rosa Beerens
Diploma Project 2022-2023, Design Academy Eindhoven
00:15:04
Language: Dutch, sub. English
AD : Barbara Vignaux
Filmmarker : Floris Harteveld
animator of the game : Olga korosteleva
Thanks you :
Dynamo Eindhoven, Nicole Van Dijk, Rosa Beerens
Diploma Project 2022-2023, Design Academy Eindhoven
The film An Imaginary Playground playfully criticizes the Eindhoven municipality for its approach tocreating a playground. Commonly, city playgrounds are designed under administrative guidance, prioritizing safety measures and budgets over the essence of play. This emphasis on safetyovershadows the social and cultural significance of play, while also reinforcing bureaucratic processes. Barbara Vignaux invited children to re-enact the process of making the playground. The film highlights the divergence between the instinctive reactions of actual children and how they are represented in the playgrounds’ catalogues. Confronting the seriousness devoted to bureaucratic tasks demonstrates how the infrastructure of play overshadows the activity of play itself.