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Bringing Play to Public Spaces

“The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression.” — Our ideas of playful public spaces have long been restricted to playgrounds and parks. Due to the notions of adulthood that have been perpetuated, we fail to even expect playful environments around us, especially so in cities. Regardless of typology, any place offering opportunities to play, is playful. Playfulness is…

Urban Planning

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Bringing Play to Public Spaces
Bringing Play to Public Spaces
Urban Planning

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Apr 5, 2017

Risk Aversion: The Curse of Modern City Planning?

Communities around the world that have embraced placemaking have found simple collaborative solutions to perceived risks — Modern cities have plenty of facilities which did not exist in the previous centuries and one of the prime developments is that cities are now better equipped to be safe. But are the cities of today really safer and better as we think? Have planning approaches adopted in the recent…

Risk Management

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Risk Aversion: The Curse of Modern City Planning?
Risk Aversion: The Curse of Modern City Planning?
Risk Management

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Mar 21, 2017

Playful Cities are Free Cities

As adults we often overlook the necessity of playful spaces, but they are vital places for communities to thrive — Cities are designed and centered around certain underlying goals, which along with their needs and aspirations evolve as per the socio-cultural changes of the time. Due to which cities are constantly restructuring their core developmental goals which range from addressing mobility, to business, to education, healthcare etc. …

Play

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Playful Cities are Free Cities
Playful Cities are Free Cities
Play

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Dec 14, 2016

Affordances and Their Role in Placemaking

Placemaking can be understood as a collectively planned design process of nurturing & cultivating a space’s optimum affordances — In his book The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception, James J. Gibson put forth the Theory of Affordances, in which he suggested that “The affordances of the environment are what it offers the animal, what it provides or furnishes, either for good or ill.” According to Gibson, the elements and…

Design

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Affordances and Their Role in Placemaking
Affordances and Their Role in Placemaking
Design

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Nov 14, 2016

Child Centric Cities for a Better Future

When cities are planned for children, distances to amenities are shortened, making distances more walkable, more bikable and improving overall accessibility. — Given the current state of the world, children seem to be our only hope. And while we hope for better times, we are responsible not only for the lives children are living right now, but also the ones they shall be living in the future. And we owe them more…

Children

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Child Centric Cities for a Better Future
Child Centric Cities for a Better Future
Children

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Oct 20, 2016

Activating and Reclaiming Public Spaces

Visibility of marginalized communities in public spaces are important steps towards a diverse, dynamic and urbane world — For marginalized populations who exist in the peripheries of our codified cities, public spaces are often places of isolation, anxiety and possible violence. …

Urban Planning

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Activating and Reclaiming Public Spaces
Activating and Reclaiming Public Spaces
Urban Planning

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Oct 10, 2016

Imagining Identities of Future Places: Placemaking in the Time of Globalization

Globalization has led to the adoption of living practices that have changed where and how we live, and not necessarily for the benefit of everyone — Individual identities have contexts. Layers of geographies, bodies, languages, cuisines, attires, symbols, beliefs and practices. A lot of who we are, comes from where we are (from). A question that now matters lesser and lesser to many of us, as we live in a world where we are connected to…

Design

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Imagining Identities of Future Places: Placemaking in the Time of Globalization
Imagining Identities of Future Places: Placemaking in the Time of Globalization
Design

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Oct 3, 2016

How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Placemaking

Place driven development can instill a sense of belonging, shared ownership and responsibility — When we hear the word placemaking, the first image we get is of someplace in Europe or America. It has been misconstrued by many in developing countries as mere beautification, a luxury that developing nations would be wasteful to spend on. …

Urban Planning

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How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Placemaking
How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Placemaking
Urban Planning

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