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Bringing Play to Public Spaces

“The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression.”

Oct 24, 2016
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Bringing Play to Public Spaces
Bringing Play to Public Spaces
Oct 24, 2016
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Risk Aversion: The Curse of Modern City Planning?

Communities around the world that have embraced placemaking have found simple collaborative solutions to perceived risks

Apr 5, 2017
Risk Aversion: The Curse of Modern City Planning?
Risk Aversion: The Curse of Modern City Planning?
Apr 5, 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

Mar 21, 2017
Playful Cities are Free Cities
Playful Cities are Free Cities
Mar 21, 2017

Affordances and Their Role in Placemaking

Placemaking can be understood as a collectively planned design process of nurturing & cultivating a space’s optimum affordances

Dec 14, 2016
Affordances and Their Role in Placemaking
Affordances and Their Role in Placemaking
Dec 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…

Nov 14, 2016
Child Centric Cities for a Better Future
Child Centric Cities for a Better Future
Nov 14, 2016

Activating and Reclaiming Public Spaces

Visibility of marginalized communities in public spaces are important steps towards a diverse, dynamic and urbane world

Oct 20, 2016
Activating and Reclaiming Public Spaces
Activating and Reclaiming Public Spaces
Oct 20, 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

Oct 10, 2016
Imagining Identities of Future Places: Placemaking in the Time of Globalization
Imagining Identities of Future Places: Placemaking in the Time of Globalization
Oct 10, 2016

How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Placemaking

Place driven development can instill a sense of belonging, shared ownership and responsibility

Oct 3, 2016
6 people casually sitting inside large cement pipes stacked in two rows, and covered on one opening side with blue, green, red, yellow film — to let filtered coloured light pass
6 people casually sitting inside large cement pipes stacked in two rows, and covered on one opening side with blue, green, red, yellow film — to let filtered coloured light pass
Oct 3, 2016
Ira Sanyal

Ira Sanyal

104 followers

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