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    Ideas Book Urban Play Spaces For Children

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    The document is an ideas book that provides guidelines and design concepts for urban playgrounds that accommodate very young children and their caregivers. It notes that most playgrounds are designed for older children with more developed motor skills. The book explores play ideas that support babies as they learn skills like crawling, standing, walking, and balancing. It also considers how children's play evolves as they grow from playing alone or with caregivers to beginning social play with simple rules. The goal is to suggest principles for playground designs that allow young children and their caregivers to have joyful interactions and opportunities for early learning and friendship formation.

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    The document is an ideas book that provides guidelines and design concepts for urban playgrounds that accommodate very young children and their caregivers. It notes that most playgrounds are designed for older children with more developed motor skills. The book explores play ideas that support babies as they learn skills like crawling, standing, walking, and balancing. It also considers how children's play evolves as they grow from playing alone or with caregivers to beginning social play with simple rules. The goal is to suggest principles for playground designs that allow young children and their caregivers to have joyful interactions and opportunities for early learning and friendship formation.

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    The document is an ideas book that provides guidelines and design concepts for urban playgrounds that accommodate very young children and their caregivers. It notes that most playgrounds are designed for older children with more developed motor skills. The book explores play ideas that support babies as they learn skills like crawling, standing, walking, and balancing. It also considers how children's play evolves as they grow from playing alone or with caregivers to beginning social play with simple rules. The goal is to suggest principles for playground designs that allow young children and their caregivers to have joyful interactions and opportunities for early learning and friendship formation.

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    Ideas Book Urban Play Spaces For Children

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    The document is an ideas book that provides guidelines and design concepts for urban playgrounds that accommodate very young children and their caregivers. It notes that most playgrounds are designed for older children with more developed motor skills. The book explores play ideas that support babies as they learn skills like crawling, standing, walking, and balancing. It also considers how children's play evolves as they grow from playing alone or with caregivers to beginning social play with simple rules. The goal is to suggest principles for playground designs that allow young children and their caregivers to have joyful interactions and opportunities for early learning and friendship formation.

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    IDEAS BOOK - URBAN

    PLAY SPACES FOR


    YOUNG CHILDREN
    Selva Gürdo an (Superpool)

    Play is an important function of public space. However, most often


    urban play spaces are designed for children or young adults that
    have already developed their motor skills. In conversation with
    Bernard van Leer Foundation in Istanbul, Superpool* initiated an
    ‘ideas book’ addressing the play needs of younger children and their
    caregivers. The book is a collection of simple guidelines and design
    ideas for urban playgrounds.

    For designers knowing the ‘user group’ is an important step in


    starting any design process. What is fascinating with designing for
    young children is that their body and skills are constantly changing
    - arguably no other user group is as ready for new challenges!
    But the seeming modesty of their challenges, such as learning
    to stand and keep balance or to take a step, should not cause
    us to underestimate the potential play value of these new skills.
    The guide tries to identify these skills and explores play ideas
    accommodating them.

    Alongside the changes in babies’ bodies, their games also


    keep evolving. At first, babies play alone or with the help of their
    caregivers. As they grow up, they start watching the children around
    them and playing independently next to them. Later, children start
    to socialise, they play games together with simple rules and, over

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    Everything
    is a game!
    Everything a child is learning
    can turn into a game. Skills
    such as crawling, standing,
    and walking learned in the

    for young children.

    CRAWLING STANDING WALKING CLIMBING JUMPING BALANCE

    Discoveries
    with...

    SAND WATER SOUND BLOCKS SPACE

    time, they move to games with more complex, sometimes self-invented, rules
    based on competition or co-operation.

    What is needed then to accommodate younger children and their caregivers


    in urban play spaces? How can playground design support babies to learn
    by observation, to challenge their skills, have joyful interactions with their
    caregivers and even to start early friendships? When searching for answers,
    instead of giving definitive answers, the ideas book provides principles and
    suggestions that hopes to inspire a multitude of creative ideas.

    Project Prepared within Istanbul95 initiative supported by Bernard van Leer


    Foundation.

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