How do we break open our playgrounds?
When we start adding up how much of our young lives we spend on playgrounds, it dawns on us how central this place is to our development. That is why it is all the more remarkable that this space is so often designed as a bare concrete plain and not the inspiring, educational and adventurous green pool that it could be. Fortunately, a counter-movement has arisen that wants to literally and figuratively break open our playgrounds. On this evening we will talk to teachers, parents, management, school umbrella organizations, designers, municipalities and civil society organizations about what they have learned about playground softening in recent years.
We discuss how each of these actors can initiate softening projects from a different angle and what lessons can be learned from the recently completed softening pilot projects.
speakers
- Nele Despodt is an organizational assistant at the Municipal Education of Antwerp and is looking at how you as a municipality can encourage schools to soften.
- Elke Hermans is a MOS tutor for primary education in the province of Antwerp.
- Sofie De Laet is a project officer at the Regional Landscape Kleine and Grote Nete and coordinates the project 'Kempense Schools Softening'.
- Annelies Sevenant, former designer at the landscape office Fris in het Landschap and parent at primary school De Leefschool in Oosterzele.
- Willem Janssens is school director at the Sint-Pietersinstituut in Turnhout.
- Marc Papanikitas is a kindergarten teacher at the foundation of the Urban Primary School KosMos in Antwerp.
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