Play

This collection focuses on social projects with young people, as well as techniques used in filmmaking with and by young people. Playgrounds are political sites of learning and creativity that reflect broader views on public access, welfare, and social reproduction. The collection documents how a range of groups–including parents, children, artists, youth workers, and play workers–have engaged with alternative education and the politics of play. This includes process-based video collaborations; game-making by group Inter-Action; a playgroup cooperative in Dartmouth Hill, London; local movements for public access to outdoor spaces in West London. The collection connects themes of spatial politics, playing and learning, public arts and city life, design, radical pedagogies, freedom, and care. Featured titles include Into the Darkness, They Never Ask Us, The Amazing Story of Talacre, The Battle of Powis Square, Inter-Action Creative Games, and One, Two, Three.