Marketplace

Frame · Functional spaces spatial

A place of trade and encounter – open, accessible, and everyone brings something different.

Design question – Your play space is a meeting point for trade. What is traded, who trades – and what happens at the edge of the market, where no one is looking?

Associations

• Typical Activities – Trading, Negotiating, Browsing, Meeting

Coherence

Mechanisms: Trading, Auction/Bidding, Area Movement (stalls as targets), Market (price fluctuations). Activities: Trading, Negotiating, Browsing, Meeting. Ludic Organisational Structures: economic order (the market), social order (public).