Co-designed temporary public space for collective play.

SHARED PLAYSCAPES is a co-designed system of mobile urban elements to promote collective play in public spaces. Involving primary school students, the research team, and the municipalities concerned, the project proposes temporary interventions in pacified spaces adjacent to primary schools in Barcelona and Milan. Its aim is double. On the one hand, it promotes the activation of public spaces contributing to the concept of playable cities through the lens of temporality. On the other hand, it constructs a meaningful relationship between children from different cities using design protocols based on sharing and collaborating at a distance. SHARED PLAYSCAPES explores the values of co-design at both the material level (informing design decisions for a temporary, adaptable and reconfigurable public space) and the relational level (establishing an operative, narrative and experiential link between participants).

SHARED PLAYSCAPES represents a commitment to co-designed temporary public spaces and an exploration of medium design, i.e., a design that proposes open and adaptable protocols for interplay in space over time.

2022

ELISAVA RESEARCH (Roger Paez (IP), Toni Montes, Mar Gené, Eloi Sànchez)

ELISAVA ALUMNI (Clàudia Anguera, Livia Tilli, Cristina Valarezo, Tiffany Whittaker, Amber Zhang)

Escola Casas (Barcelona) alumnes de 6è

Scuola Tito Speri (Milano) alumnes de 5è

CARNET, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Comune di Milano, Escola Casas, Scuola Tito Speri, Brava Performing Arts