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PAPERS: Play Design II: Exploring practices Location: Appleton Tower, LT1 Zoom Link Session Chair: Helle Marie Skovbjerg, Kolding School of Design Session Chair: Mathias Poulsen, Kolding School of Design | |
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Playing with possibility: Exploring materiality, affordances and forms of participation through construction play Kolding School of Design, Denmark Material exploration is central to both play and design, where imagination unfolds through tactile and social engagement. This study examines how materials participate as agents in creative exploration through three video-recorded construction-play sessions involving children aged five to six. Using reflexive thematic analysis, the study identifies three key findings: (1) expressive form elements augment material agency; (2) affordances are encountered through two distinct relational mechanisms — Affordance Emergence and Affordance Orientation — which mediate between imaginative states and material properties; and (3) participation shifts dynamically between contributing, cooperating, and collaborating. By clarifying how affordances bridge psychological engagement and material structure, the study advances discussions of material agency and participatory dynamics in both play and design research. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.931
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