Participation
Participatory Play
Chillingham Road Primary School, Newcastle upon Tyne
April 2005
During the Easter holidays Chillingham Road Primary School's Headteacher invited interested children and parents to spend an afternoon in a Northern Architecture devised participatory playground design workshop. A landscape architect from Colour Urban Design and a landscape architecture student made up the team of deliverers.
A variety of activities took place. Initially participants colour-coded the playground with big sheets of paper. They then made a giant tetrahedron on site, made drawings of their ideal playground and worked on site to build some of those structures and places out of junk material provided - bottle crates, tubes, fabric. Finally, they chalked markings onto the ground to connect 'zones'. The Headteacher will now use this documentation to support a funding application to develop the playground.
