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The Playable City

Part 2 Project 2024
Robyn Platt-Lambert
University of Central Lancashire | UK
This project explores how children and adults can reclaim and create playable spaces together, whether it be structured or open concept play; changing the concept of play for a society that forgets to play when they reach a certain age and has the opportunity to play dictated by specific infrastructure and legislation.

The project utilises the existing physical and spatial infrastructure of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal in the town of Nelson. The canal is utilised as an armature from which to create a new infrastructure of play, whilst also connecting the canal to Nelson town centre and exploring how the built environment provides a continuous, inviting and accessible experience of play.

What would an urban environment look like if you were never 10 metres from a play space?

The ambition for this project is to make Nelson the most playable place by devising a strategy of interventions that exist at the following scales.

Immediate small scale interventions through the urban fabric.

An Academy of Play: a civic infrastructure that reintroduces people of all ages to play.

Policy and design advice.

This strategy mixes, the physical, spatial and policy in order to enact behavioural change individually, collectively and civic.


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