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Install children’s play areas

Playgrounds or play areas are essential in public spaces since they are intended for, and therefore represent, the youngest population: children. Playgrounds should be diverse, accessible and inclusive.

  • Use natural resources (large stones, logs, etc.) to design your game systems. This increases biophilia, educates environmentally, gives more climatic comfort and reinforces the biological continuity of the parks.
  • Each game element must have a free perimeter space of at least 150 cm. Install non-figurative games. Abstract games have multiple ways of being used and therefore validate any user interaction with the medium.
  • Install swings, slides, and seesaws
  • Create areas to run, move freely, jump and climb in an abstract way as they encourage diversification of use, age or need.
  • Develop games that facilitate contemplation, sitting, rolling and crawling, as well as stimulating surfaces due to their touch, hearing, temperature, sight, etc. .
  • Install substructures where more ephemeral games can be attached. Some children need games with a more temporary installation as they are more ephemeral materials: this is the case of children on the autism spectrum, for example.
  • Have mediators in the children’s environment to accompany children with diverse abilities in their games
Sources
  • Carers
  • Children
  • Cognitive abilities
  • Decolonial perspective
  • Enviroment
  • Gender perspective
  • Hearing impairment
  • Low-education
  • Older people
  • Other(+)
  • Physical abilities and features
  • Sin categoría
  • Temporary
  • Universal Design
  • Visual impairment