How to give children the freedom to play all across the city – not just in playgrounds: Co-created play space with children and the community, Via Val Lagarina Milan. Milan municipality Children play everywhere. Yet their right to play – protected by a UN convention – is constantly challenged by adults. Play is crucial to …
How mid-century Amsterdam built 700 doorstep playgrounds – and then forgot about them: The playground on Zaanhof. Amsterdam City Archives/010009008690 What would a child-friendly city look like? One scenario goes like this: you wake up in the city one morning, there is no traffic, all you can hear are children playing and the occasional dog …
How 1950s bombsites in the UK were turned into adventure playgrounds: Lollard adventure playground, Lambeth, London, 1955. theirhistory | flickr, CC BY-NC-SA In 1944, Marie Paneth, an Austrian-born art therapist, imagined a scheme whereby London’s bombsites would be used by local children for building huts and caves and for growing vegetables which they could then …
Four reasons why children need to be more active in school playgrounds, and what’s stopping them: Many children are not playing games outside at breaktimes. Monkey Business/Shutterstock School breaktimes might be assumed to be the most active period in a child’s school day. The fanciful notion that when the school “bell” rings children flood the …