Training
We train architects, urban designers, and policymakers to design for play beyond catalogue play equipment, focusing on how play can be integrated into the broader design of public space.
Our approach encourages the creation of meaningful, inclusive, and engaging environments where play emerges through landscape, urban form, and social interaction rather than relying only on standardised playground elements.
We have led numerous workshops and training programmes internationally, working with professionals in South Korea, Croatia, Egypt, Rwanda, and Mexico to rethink how cities can support playful, child-friendly, and community-oriented environments.
Some of the topics that we address are:
- How to design pedagogically rich play spaces, with local materials, without catalogue play equipment?
- How to involve the community in their resilient and child-friendly environment?
- How to integrate solutions for climate challenges in public (play) spaces?
- How to design meaningful participation processes?
- How to design inclusive playspaces for all children, focusing on educational vision, 21st century skills, inclusion, gender equity?
Workshop for architects based on the following topics: Placemaking for children, Risk & potentials mapping, Co-design and Co-construct.
Workshop architects & urbanists: “Approaches to participatory design”.
Tour & Lecture for a group of professionals from Western Balkan countries from EU project RE:PLAY about “Greening Schoolyards with a Participatory design process”.
Training of architects in designing for children in 5 practical sessions with 4 case-studies in Mexico, for Placemaking X and LAPIS.