"Exploring Pla
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< span style="font-size:12pt\;">Melbourn e - Monday 19 October. Venue: LIbrary at the D ock.
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Melbourne - Monday 19 October. Venue: Library at the Dock.
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\n \nAbout Wendy< /b>
\n \nDr Wendy Russell is a Senior Resea rch Fellow and an independent researcher. Her rese arch into children’s play focuses on the politics of space\, and playwork. She is a co-founder of th e biennial international Philosophy at Play confer ence and is on the editorial board of the Internat ional Journal of Play.
\n \nCritical cartog raphy\, as developed by Wendy\, treats mapping not as a way of recording places but as a way of reve aling the relationships\, power dynamics and mater ial conditions that shape opportunities for play. Through creative\, deliberately ‘inefficient’ mapp ing\, storying and diagramming\, Critical Cartogra phy helps practitioners to reflect on and reimagin e play spaces\, supporting more equitable\, playfu l and responsive environments. Read more…
\ n \nWendy’s research into therapeutic playwork explores how children\, playworkers\, materials\, animals and spaces come together to create condit ions of safety\, joy and self-directed play within therapeutic settings. By combining creative mappi ng with non-linear evaluation methods\, it demonst rates the value of play as a relational\, process- based form of care while providing meaningful evid ence of its impact beyond conventional outcome mea sures. Read more…
\n \nWendy has played a leading role in developing the Play Sufficiency Duty in Wales\, creating practical\, relational t ools that help local authorities assess and improv e the conditions that enable children to play. Wen dy has guided play policy and practice in Wales an d promotes play sufficiency internationally. Read more…
\n \nTogether\, in 2026 \, we will chart a path forward for developing a c omprehensive national agenda for play in Australia —one that recognizes children's right to play not as a luxury\, but as essential to their health\, w ellbeing\, and development.
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THIS PROJECT IS AN INITIATI VE OF PLAY AUSTRALIA.
\n \nW E APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT OF DELEGATE REGISTRATION FEES IN FUNDING THIS INITIATIVE.
DESCRIPTION:"Exploring Play and Wellbeing and the Concept of S patial Justice". \n \n \n \n \n \n Melbourne - M onday 19 October. Venue: LIbrary at the Dock. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Melbourne - M onday 19 October. Venue: Library at the Dock. \n \n \n \n \\\\\n \n \n \n About Wendy\n \n \n \n Dr Wendy Russell is a Senior Research Fellow and an independent researcher. Her research into child ren’s play focuses on the politics of space\, and playwork. She is a co-founder of the biennial inte rnational Philosophy at Play conference and is on the editorial board of the International Journal o f Play.\n \n \n \n Critical cartography\, as devel oped by Wendy\, treats mapping not as a way of rec ording places but as a way of revealing the relati onships\, power dynamics and material conditions t hat shape opportunities for play. Through creative \, deliberately ‘inefficient’ mapping\, storying a nd diagramming\, Critical Cartography helps practi tioners to reflect on and reimagine play spaces\, supporting more equitable\, playful and responsive environments. Read more… (https://www.glos.ac.uk/ play-research-laboratory/#critical-cartography)\n \n \n \n Wendy’s research into therapeutic playwor k explores how children\, playworkers\, materials\ , animals and spaces come together to create condi tions of safety\, joy and self-directed play withi n therapeutic settings. By combining creative mapp ing with non-linear evaluation methods\, it demons trates the value of play as a relational\, process -based form of care while providing meaningful evi dence of its impact beyond conventional outcome me asures. Read more… (https://www.glos.ac.uk/play-re search-laboratory/#therapeutic-playwork)\n \n \n \ n Wendy has played a leading role in developing th e Play Sufficiency Duty in Wales\, creating practi cal\, relational tools that help local authorities assess and improve the conditions that enable chi ldren to play. Wendy has guided play policy and pr actice in Wales and promotes play sufficiency inte rnationally. Read more… (https://www.glos.ac.uk/pl ay-research-laboratory/#play-sufficiency)\n \n \n \n Together\, in 2026\, we will chart a path forwa rd for developing a comprehensive national agenda for play in Australia—one that recognizes children 's right to play not as a luxury\, but as essentia l to their health\, wellbeing\, and development.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS PROJECT IS AN INITIATI VE OF PLAY AUSTRALIA.\n \n \n \n WE APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT OF DELEGATE REGISTRATION FEES IN FUNDING THIS INITIATIVE.\n \n CATEGORIES:Seminar CALSCALE:GREGORIAN DTSTAMP;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261019T100000 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261019T100000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261019T130000 LOCATION:Activity Room\, Library at The Dock\n 107 Victoria Harbour Promenarde\n Docklands\n Melbourne\, VIC 3008\n Australia\n URL:https://www.playaustralia.org.au/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=606 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR