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Call for papers Revista de Arquitectura N.º 47. 

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Deadline for receipt of articles:  September 10, 2024

Guidelines for authors: https://dearquitectura.uchile.cl/index.php/RA/about/submissions

Childrens’ Game as a tool for coexistence in Domestic Space

Authors

  • Lucía Martín López Tecnologico de Monterrey

Abstract

Game is a catalyst for intangible. On numerous occasions this is used by children in their homes to appropriate certain spaces delimiting their existence from their families. Something that has become more evident in many homes around the world during the different periods of Lockdown suffered between 2020 and 2021. In this text, these games are studied from the perspective of spatial appropriation in order to identify the different types of limits that infants create and their different characteristics. For this, the concept of spatial appropriation and the types of existing domestic territories are explored through various authors. Subsequently, various qualitative surveys are carried out on subjects linked in their daily lives with children and the previously mentioned practices. From these analyzes emerged the six characteristics of the boundaries created by infants to appropriate the territory (reality, materiality, permeability, temporality, functionality and spatiality) described and illustrated in detail in the article.

Keywords:

appropriation, territory, housing, game, childhood