Patchwork soccer

Spacing‘s “Work and Play” issue discussed the importance of play in public space, both as a way of asserting public use of space, and as a way of bringing citizens together. A recent article in the Star highlighted a fine example of this issue. Newcomers and locals have taken over a scrap of unused ground beside a temporary residence for newly arrived refugees, and use it for a regular game of pickup soccer mixing together Canadians and refugees in a common language of sport.