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This essay traces a shift in how we understand energy, use, and agency—from centralized systems and consumer identities toward distributed, bodily, and generative forms of participation. Drawing on energy history, design theory, political philosophy, and Indigenous ethics, it argues that being a “user” is not a passive role but a political position. To use is to act, to produce, and to take responsibility across time. As a user, I produce energy.

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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?