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PlayTheory|游乐能理论场
When play meets theory, energy flows beyond the body. This section brings together feminist energy studies, care ethics, childhood politics, and more—reframing what it means to generate power.
当游乐遇上思辨,能量将不止来自身体。该栏目汇聚女性主义能源、关怀伦理、童年政治等多元视角,重新勾勒“发电”背后的社会结构与身体想象。


What if the happiest clean energy could stop being wasted? Introducing “Happy Power”
When it comes to clean energy, what comes to mind?
Solar power, wind power, hydropower?
Biomass, geothermal, tidal energy?
Or are there other possibilities?
echofline
Aug 2511 min read


The Last Playground | Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day, Playground without Walls Needs Just Two
This article has a whopping 20,000 words, packed with loads of funny pictures and all sorts of random stuff. Definitely one to bookmark...
echofline
Aug 252 min read


Playgrounds as the Materialization of Care: The Technology, Ethics, and Social Functions of Children's Play Facilities
This article was initially framed around Playground Without Walls as a case study. It proposes a systemic structural hypothesis: if children’s physical activity and play can be reimagined as a form of public energy production—then could play itself become a basis for reconfiguring infrastructural logics, mechanisms of benefit-sharing, and even ethics of care?

yuxi
Aug 2014 min read


“Play” Is a Right, and Also a Power | Children’s Day Special Feature: How PlayPower Generates Well-being for Children
In “Play Is a Right—and a Power,” I examine how playgrounds have evolved from 19th-century factories to today’s over-controlled “safety cages,” and share how PlayPower’s child-centered, modular “behavioral energy” approach turns overlooked spaces into dynamic learning ecosystems. By treating children’s actions, emotions, and imagination as tangible energy, we not only illuminate playgrounds—but also empower kids as real co-creators of their communities. Join me in rethinking
echofline
Jun 3019 min read


PlayCorp Union: “Don’t grow up — it’s powerless.”
Under Section 42-A of the National Energy Citizenship Act, every resident is graded by a Playability Quotient (PLQ).
Children, thanks to superior kinetic capacity, enter at Tier 1; adults must earn civic rights through verified acts of recreational labour and emotional output.
A citizen’s Energy Passport, badge set and provisional access to the Reproductive Eligibility Assessment Scheme are issued at onboarding. All behaviour is archived in the Central Energy Records Bu

yuxi
Jun 233 min read


Rethinking Energy through Ecofeminism: HappyPower and the Gentle Energy Revolution
How can we rethink energy not as extraction, but as care? This piece explores how HappyPower draws on ecofeminist thinking to imagine a soft, body-based energy revolution—playful, distributed, and deeply relational.
echofline
Jun 73 min read


Play = Power — From Typhoon Blackout to Global Micro‑grids
When a typhoon plunged rural Haikou into darkness, children kept laughing on a powerless playground. That moment lit a question in our...
echofline
Jun 73 min read
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