Plac zabaw jako miejsce dla dzieci vs. miejsce dzieci
Playground as a place for children vs. children’s place

Summary/Abstract: The content of the article is an analysis of two different concepts of children’s playgrounds, one ofwhich is a standard urban/pre-school playground, reproduced in countless variations, and the otheris an individualised variation of an adventure playground. The criterion of the analysis was the conceptof a non-place by Marc Augé and the pedagogical concept of a place by Maria Mendel, DorotaKlus-Stańska, Jolanta Zwiernik. The analysis has identified two types of discourses that characterizeadult organizers of children’s playgrounds: care discourse and emancipatory discourse. The carediscourse is a manifestation of concern for children’s safety and it is revealed in the organizationof space and delimitation of children’s activity in standard playgrounds, which makes it a place forchildren (non-place in the Augé concept). The emancipatory discourse makes use of the educationaladvantages offered by adventure playgrounds and by creating the conditions to increase the participationof children in the life of their community now and in the future makes them children’s place.

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