Fifth International Conference on Tourism & Leisure Studies

Abstract

The concept of creative recreation is taking on a completely new meaning nowadays. In order to extend and deepen the understanding of creative recreation, psycho-pedagogical theories have been applied in the present research. Creative recreation is more broadly explored in an urban space. Urban space is also used as a place to perform workshops in which participants try to create space and experience, crossing the lines of conventional thinking about a spatial form or create urban space. Similar actions have inspired discussions on creative spaces. It then seems essential to spatially analyse the occurrence of creative recreation in an urban space. A city needs to be looked at in more detail, and more environmental concepts, which can make us closer to actual locations of creative actions, need to be found. The main question of the research is: who organises outdoor creative recreation in Łódź`s recreational space and why? In the first part of paper, the author introduces the analysis of distribution of the outdoor creative recreational space in Łódź in 2019, selected by the type of organisers. Secondly, the result of a qualitative outdoor study–casual interviews with organisers–i presented. In the conclusions, the author underlines the role of recreational space in the account of action taken by participants in the urban recreational space, the reconstruction of experience, and interpretation of the above mentioned actions among respondents, and the perception for the recreational space in Łódź.