Play mobile

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Fire-red playmobile from the Berlin district of Neukölln

Play mobiles are motor vehicles, construction vehicles or similar mobile facilities equipped with play materials and devices that drive to certain places (e.g. green areas, playgrounds, schools) at certain times in order to provide play options there to supplement or replace missing play facilities . These “rolling children and youth centers ” are usually in independent or municipal sponsorship (e.g. youth associations , youth associations , churches , other sponsors of independent youth care ).

The task of play mobiles is to promote movement development and creativity, to create play spaces, to improve play possibilities, to enable meeting places and communication possibilities for children. Play mobiles are also known as so-called mobile work areas in the sense of pedagogically supervised playgrounds.

Conceptual alignments

The work of the Spielmobile in the Federal Republic has different conceptual orientations and is organized very heterogeneously. On the one hand, this is an expression of the different sponsorships of the Spielmobile, but is largely explained by the educational concepts behind the work. Two main tendencies can be distinguished, which are not hostile to each other, but opposed to one another in their orientation. This is on the one hand a socio-educational and on the other hand a cultural-educational orientation. The socio-pedagogical motivation sees a compensative mandate to counteract societal deficits through socio-pedagogical work ( social pedagogy ). The offer for children and young people should be supplemented, especially in socially disadvantaged areas, in order to make up for individual deficits (motor underdevelopment, low level of education, low social competence, etc.).

Fire-red play mobile Berlin-Neukölln

The aim of cultural education work ( cultural education ), on the other hand, is to initiate learning and awareness processes. Cultural education is an instrument, a field of experimentation and a stimulating space in which people can face new ideas and developments. Passive cultural consumption is consciously opposed to one's own active creative activity. Despite the differences in the conceptual orientation, the Spielmobile works closely with the local youth development agencies .

The Spielmobil approach thus combines elements of adventure education and play education as methods of social work.

The BAG playmobile lists different types in its playmobile lexicon according to concepts, equipment and locations such as sports mobiles, fun mobiles, action workshop mobiles, design workshop mobiles, mobile play libraries, rolling playgrounds, cross-generational play mobiles, mobiles for young people.

Examples of mobility design with different vehicles in outreach social work:

  • Trucks
  • minibus
  • Ambulance
  • Fire engine
  • pendant
  • Construction trailer
  • Caravan

History and Development

The exact origin of the playmobile is unknown, the spread of these facilities began around 1970 in West Germany and was originally a movement to counteract the industrialization and the related banishment of children in the living space of that time.

The Spielmobil movement emerged parallel to the adventure playground movement, which established itself as an alternative method in the development of open child and youth work in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

From the summer of 1972 to 1981, a children's television series with a total of 184 episodes under the title Das feuerrote Spielmobil was broadcast in the ARD program .

Through the search for alternative and innovative methods of child labor in the International Year of the Child 1979 and through the rethinking of politics (today's children are tomorrow's voters), the product of which is the reformed KJHG (valid since 1991, here in particular §§ 3 and 8, as well as §§ 79 and 80), the mobile approach experienced an upgrade and thus opened up possibilities for a world that is desirable for children and full of opportunities for development. It provides the framework for the design of living spaces for children.

In addition to their socio-educational or cultural-educational work, many play mobiles also organize play festivals or offer play equipment for events. In doing so, spectacular play equipment such as roller slides, bouncy castles or climbing walls are used.

carrier

The play mobiles are either municipal or independent. Many play mobiles (especially independent providers) are grouped together in the Federal Working Group on Spielmobile . This promotes conceptual exchange, organizes Spielmobil meetings and documents the work of the Spielmobil movement. It operates the website spielmobile.de, via which Spielmobile can be reached directly nationwide, and offers information both conceptual and practical.

Spielmobilkongress

Since the late 1970s, Spielmobil congresses have offered opportunities with changing key topics for exchange between sponsors, sponsors and interested parties for play festivals, workshops, practical and project reports and lectures on the current state of knowledge.

Previous Spielmobil congresses
Festival of games at the 37th International Spielmobil Congress at the Mannheim water tower
  • 42nd Bonn / Remscheid Academy 2014 "Playable world - comprehensible world"
  • 41st Hamburg 2013 "Children's Rights-Strengths"
  • 40th Dresden 2012 "research while playing"
  • 39. Essen 2010 "Changed Childhood"
  • 38th Freiburg 2009 "Playing - Living - Learning, Contributions of the Playmobiles to Holistic Education"
  • 37th Mannheim 2008 key topic "The future in a square"
  • 36th Luxembourg 2007 focus topic "Migration of the Games - Games of the Migrants"
  • 35th Friedrichshafen 2006 Focus on "School and Play"
  • 34th Turin 2005 main topic “time TO play”
  • 33rd Nordhausen 2004 main theme "Adventure Game City"
  • 32nd Leipzig 2001 main topic "Homo ludens - the playing person between tradition and change"
  • 31. Munich 2000 main topic "The mobile 'homo ludens' in the digital age"
  • 30. Weimar 1999 main topic "And they play anyway - game in motion"
  • 29. Flensburg 1998 main topic "Scope"
  • 28. Zillertal Tirol 1997 Main topic "Difficult children"
  • 27. Brixen South Tyrol 1996
  • 26. Zurich 1995
  • 25. Freiburg 1994
  • 24th Hamburg 1993
  • 23. Chemnitz / Augustusburg (Saxony) 1992
  • 22nd Salzburg 1991
  • 21. Karlsruhe 1990
  • 20. Oldenburg 1989
  • 19. Stuttgart 1989
  • 18. Friedrichshafen 1988
  • 17. Düsseldorf 1988: Main topic "Play mobile work in other countries"
  • 16. Graz 1987
  • 15. Berlin 1987
  • 14th Luxembourg 1986
  • 13. Munich 1986
  • 12. Vienna 1985
  • 11. Bolzano 1985
  • 10. Friedrichshafen 1984
  • 9. Bern 1984
  • 8. Essen 1983
  • 7. Munich 1983
  • 6. Bielefeld 1982
  • 5. Bärental in Alsace (organizer Karlsruhe) 1981
  • 4. Graz 1981
  • March 3, 1980
  • 2. Berlin 1980
  • 1. Burgstall in the Zillertal (organizer PA Munich) 1979

literature

  • Hans Mayrhofer, Wolfgang Zacharias: Action game bus. Weinheim 1973.
  • Harald Hohenacker, Heike Mundzeck: Spielmobil-Spielbuch. True and fantastic stories for every day. 1984, ISBN 3-421-02444-8 .
  • Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk eV; Regional specialist group Spielmobil NRW; IPA - right to play eV (Hrsg.): The game mobile book. A lobby for playrooms and children's rights. Fipp, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-924830-17-7 .
  • City of Kassel Children's Office / Verein Spielmobil Rote Rübe eV (ed.): Playground instead of parking lot - future workshop with children. Kassel 2000.
  • Gerd Grüneisl, Gerhard Knecht, Wolfgang Zacharias: People and games: The mobile "homo ludens" in the digital age, 2001 plus . LKD-Verlag, Unna 2001, ISBN 3-931949-31-1 .
  • Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Spielmobile eV (Hrsg.): Spielmobil - Collection of methods: Projects for the participation of children made easy. Erfurt 2001.
  • Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Spielmobile eV (Ed.): School learns to play, smart ideas for cooperation between playmobile and schools. Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-9811044-0-4 .
  • Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Spielmobile eV (Ed.): What do you think about? Games and projects with wooden blocks. Freiburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811044-3-1 .
  • Gerd Grüneisl (Ed.): 30 years of mobile games & culture in Munich. SPIELkultur educational campaign, 2002.
  • Project Clean Playground - Kronenackerstraße, Kassel-Oberzwehren 2004, red turnip mobile play, association for mobile child and youth social work.
  • Elke Reuting: Adults in participation processes with children and adolescents: using the example of project-oriented participation work in the city of Kassel with special consideration of the Spielmobil Rote Rübe association. Dissertation, University of Kassel, 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Fieseler, Reinhard Herboth: Right of the family and youth welfare. Workplace youth welfare office / social service . Luchterhand, Neuwied 2005, p. 314f.
  2. ↑ The Spielmobil Lexicon ( Memento of the original dated August 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spielmobile.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : The different types of playmobile .