خلاصة:
Despite the availability of extensive facilities for children, the effect of environment on creativity
of children is often ignored. It is a fact that children can attend the playgrounds in city parks, independently, from age
6, therefore they become exposed to influence of the environment during this age period. It is necessary to design
playgrounds for children to improve their creativity. The objective here is to assess the effects of physical components
of the playgrounds in city parks on creativity of children of ages 6 to 12. A descriptive- analytic method is adopted in
this study. This method is adopted to achieve the theoretical perspectives and correlations between the variables and
indices, through analysis. At this stage, the data are collected from a selected statistical population through field research
and closed response researcher designed questionnaire and the effective variables are determined by factor analysis and
correlation. By applying path analysis method using of Smart PLS1 software program based on the relations between
the variables, the study model is provided. The results indicate that there exists a significant correlation between the
environmental factors and creativity and regarding the rate of effectiveness of the physical factors on creativity, the
variety factor is more effective, followed by physical liveliness and flexibility factors, respectively.
ملخص الجهاز:
Therefore, due to the fact that children can go to the playgrounds of the city parks from age 6, almost independently and based on the studies of the developmental psychology that at this age group, children receive the highest effects from the environmental stimuli, it is necessary to make attempts to increase creativity of the children of this ages group by environmental physical features like variety, liveliness, and flexibility.
On this basis, two hypotheses are proposed: the features of the playgrounds including physical variety, physical flexibility, and liveliness led by presence of natural factors in city parks and are effective on increasing creativity of children and second, there exist difference, among the rate of effect of physical indices of the environment in dimensions of children’s creativity in city parks.
By analyzing the proposed theories about features of physical variety, liveliness, and flexibility in architectural and urbanization contexts, the required variables in effecting factors on designing the playgrounds to improve creativity are tabulated in Table 1.
To the experts the first factor is the Flexibility of thought, the second is Variety of materials, the third is Landmark element, the fourth is Liveliness (presence of natural elements), the fifth is Physical flexibility, the sixth is Elaboration, the seventh is Originality and finally the eighth is Variety in visual details.