A PLAYGROUND BUILT ON THE MEMORIES OF OUR CITY: PLAYFOREST & PLAYHOUSE_AS YOU LIKE!
Last May, a new space opened in Deokjin Park, becoming the most popular resting place for all Jeonju citizens from children to the elderly. It is the ‘Playforest & Playhouse_as you like!’, created through the UNICEF Child-Friendly Space Project. SPACE conducted an interview with Kim Ahyeon (professor, University of Seoul), the general designer of the project, and Kim Hun (co-principal, Ilsang Architects), the architect participated in the project, to hear more about the background to this project and their working process.
Bang Yukyung: Since the early stages of the UNICEF Child-Friendly Space Project, you participated as a general designer in charge of research and the basic plan. Please briefly introduce the purpose and process behind the project.
UNICEF is running ‘UNICEF Child Friendly City Initiatives’ in cities throughout the world. This pursues the critical point that children’s opinions should be respected and implemented in the decision-making process when creating and using the city spaces assigned to the initiative, a notion based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which claims that ‘I have the right to relax and play’. The certification requires the establishment of local government systems that cover practical institutions and administration. Supporting various projects in cities that have
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