Print Email Facebook Twitter Playscapes Title Playscapes: Creating Space for Young Children's Physical Activity and Play Author Boon, Boudewijn (TU Delft Human Information Communication Design; TU Delft Design Aesthetics) Contributor Stappers, P.J. (promotor) Van den Heuvel-Eibrink, Marry M. (promotor) Rozendaal, M.C. (copromotor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Date 2020-03-23 Abstract Young children often lack opportunities to play in a physically active way. This is particularly the case for children with cancer and other chronic diseases, who regularly undergo periods of hospitalization. Promoting their physical activity and play can contribute to their health, wellbeing, and development. This thesis develops ‘Playscapes’ – a design perspective that emphasizes the unstructured and spontaneous nature of young children’s physical activity. Playscapes encourages designers to enable such physical activity through the design of open-ended and ambiguous playthings. By designing such playthings for children with cancer, this thesis contributes to turning hospital environments, such as patient rooms and waiting areas, into potential ‘landscapes for physical activity and play’. Subject Design for behavior changephysical activityopen-ended playyoung childrenpediatric healthcareresearch through design To reference this document use: https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:8f3090a6-39c6-4ddf-9ee8-9afb73021605 ISBN 978-94-6384-117-7 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights © 2020 Boudewijn Boon Files PDF Boon_2020_Playscapes_Crea ... hesis_.pdf 16.23 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:8f3090a6-39c6-4ddf-9ee8-9afb73021605/datastream/OBJ/view