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'This paper explores the relationship between play and power in the context of civic infrastructure and institutional systems as manifested in the work of Pop Up Playground. It focuses particularly on the ability of play to reveal the hidden tensions of ownership, negotiate social power structures and construct social spaces through temporary/fleeting communities of play.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Axon : Creative Explorations Creative Play vol. 7 no. 1 April 2017 11071069 2017 periodical issue

    'Play evades and escapes our attempts to define and delimit. It has variously been positioned as benign, crucial, intractable, frivolous, developmental, wasteful and subversive. While it may occur ‘between the cracks of ordinary life’ (Henricks 2006: 1) and be denoted by a ‘feeling of Otherwise’ (Shields 2015: 300), it is the very everydayness of playful engagement that captures our attention in this issue of Axon. As the papers and works brought together here attest, it is hard to imagine creativity without play. Play infiltrates and enlivens creative practice research. It allows us to think and to be otherwise in the academy.' (From introduction)

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