Artist Nadia Lesniarek led “The Crip Playground”, a talk, discussion and workshop exploring disability, play and architectural space. Beginning with an artist talk on disability theory and the history of playgrounds, the session examined how play intersects with morality, trust, risk, and the regulation of bodies from childhood. Participants engaged in collective model-making and memory writing, drawing on their own sensory experiences, archives and case studies to speculate on the radical potential of a Crip Playground, one that enables rest, nonlinear movement, trust and disabled ways of inhabiting space.
Artist Nadia Lesniarek led “The Crip Playground”, a talk, discussion and workshop exploring disability, play and architectural space. Beginning with an artist talk on disability theory and the history of playgrounds, the session examined how play intersects with morality, trust, risk, and the regulation of bodies from childhood. Participants engaged in collective model-making and memory writing, drawing on their own sensory experiences, archives and case studies to speculate on the radical potential of a Crip Playground, one that enables rest, nonlinear movement, trust and disabled ways of inhabiting space.