Topic: Play space

Difference between playgrounds and natural play spaces for school

There is not much a difference between playgrounds and play spaces. Rather one must develop an eye for precision in order to depict the differences between the two. A playground is a place especially designed...Read more

12-07-2019|Comment|author: Melissa Hamler

Play Through the Eyes of a Child

Unique to the playing child, or children, at any one moment in time is the motivation to create something out of apparently nothing. Constantly exposed to so much stimuli. But with, often, limited opportunities to...Read more

22-04-2016|Comment|author: Jane Roberts

Italian school children participate in designing of a new schoolyard “PortaColori”

The ‘Portacolori’ – a play space located in the primary school in the Monte Rosello neighbourhood of Sassari, Italy – is the outcome of a real and complex participatory design process. The project involved the...Read more

09-02-2016|Comment|author: TaMaLaCa - Interdisciplinary research group

10 (+1) steps to a playable city

A recent blog by the Canadian urbanist, Jillian Glover identified the ten features she believes are the key to building child-friendly cities. Yet there is a glaring omission from the list: nowhere, even in the...Read more

08-12-2015|Comment|author: Adrian Voce