This support project was initiated by the "New Star Fire" action team. They hope that children can escape from the cram school-style childhood and grow up healthily with other peers in the community. With the support of the organization "PARS Free Play", the children conceived their own plans, and the parents assisted the children in building them with recycled wood, ropes, and waste tires.

At the same time, this action also incubated local parent-child communities to self-organize operation and building. Through training and empowering parents as Xinhua local game teachers, parents have mastered the ability to plan and organize game camps, and established a set of self-management and operation models, fundraising and leveling up motivation through the public welfare activities, and completing the implementation community self-organization for the maintenance.

Authors: Zijie Lin

Shanghai
From: 11/10/2022
To: 30/12/2025
Mission:
  • Co-creative and community-led meanwhile
Themes:
Circularity and regenerative practices
Safety, conviviality & liveability
Inclusive engagement, access & rights to cities

Tags: Playground, Upcycling, Self-organization

"Xinxing Fire" is a team composed of local parents in Xinhua, serving the Xinhua community playground project. We hope that we can become a star for the children of Xinhua, and work with them to create a friendly community game environment, and illuminate the entire Xinhua community and even Shanghai with this beam of light, becoming a template for more urban community playgrounds.
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