Architecture, Design & Environment
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 Birth to Three - New Guide to Good Practice This booklet focuses on planning child-centred indoor areas, but outdoor space is indispensable. Most of the principles apply outside as well, and often equipment can be moved outdoors. |
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Community Playthings - Birth to Threes A guide to room layout and equipment choice for young children |
830 |
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Design Council From school to university, the Design Council can help people fulfil their potential by using their creativity and building new skills. |
875 |
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Community Playthings - Making Spaces for Children An easy to follow guide on how to maximise the value of space that children use daily |
968 |
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Design for Fun Playgrounds This publication looks at a wide range of innovative playgroundsolutions which provide a variety of pleasing environments andaesthetically pleasing public spaces. |
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Early Childhood Spaces - Alison Clark This working paper explores the methodology and initial issues raised in seeking to involve young children in the design process. It reports a study concerned with how young children can play an active role in the designing and developing of children's spaces. The focus is on children under 6 years old in early childhood provision. |
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Effective Practice: The Learning Environment The Learning Environment involves both the people and the space in which children develop and learn. A report for the Department for Education and Skills. |
995 |
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Early Years Experience Craft supplies from scrap stores. |
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Early Years Case Studies - CABE Case studies of early years buildings. |
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Evergreen Adventure Playground Architects worked with young people at the Evergreen adventure playground in Hackney to create a surprising and exciting space for imaginative play. |
578 |
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Forest Schools The philosophy of Forest Schools is to encourage and inspire individuals of any age through positive outdoor experiences. |
585 |
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Freemantle Pavilion The idea for Freemantle Pavilion developed after a group of young people asked a Southampton youth worker if they could have a place of their own to go. |
493 |
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GRUMPY High quality play and educational resources for children. |
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Learning Through Landscapes Learning through Landscapes helps schools and early years settings make the most of their outdoor spaces for play and learning. |
511 |
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Landscape for Learning: The Impact of Classroom Design on Infants and Toddlers An article by Louis Torelli, M.S.Ed., and Charles Durrett, Architect. |
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Outdoor Space A Creative Partnerships London East and South case study by Renee Smithens |
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Play England: New Design Guidance to Transform the Future of Play Design for Play: A guide to creating successful play spaces will provide local authorities and other commissioners with advice and ideas on how to transform children’s play spaces. |
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Reimagining Outdoor Learning Spaces Aims to inspire and provoke creative thinking regarding outdoor learning and play spaces. It urges those involved in redesign to be innovative, radical, pioneering and to rethink the possibilities offered by this once-in-a-generation opportunity to help reshape and improve the broad educational experience for all young people - outdoor space is a vital element contributing to any child's development and educational experiences. |
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Public Space Lessons - Designing and Planning for Play This briefing from CABE Space highlights best practice in design and strategy and urges greater use of creative, natural play spaces. |
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Remida Outdoor learning environments at Reggio, Italy. |
850 |
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Studio UK Studio UK means: furnishings and resources for creative early childhood learning environments. This website displays some of our products and is for anyone with an interest in creating environments for children whether in education, childcare or domestic settings. |
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Schools for the Future: Designing School Grounds This briefing summarises aspects, relevant to the play sector, of the guidance on developing school grounds, which is part of the government’s school building and redevelopment programme. |
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Swindon Children's Scrapstore Turning waste things into play things. |
793 |
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The Arts in North Tyneside: House of Objects North Tyneside Council is pursuing an initiative to establish an innovative new centre offering reclaimed, reusable and recycled materials that are capable of being revived through the imagination and creativity of their users. |
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To Learn School Playground Design Ask Teacher This document gives specific advice on play areas for schools. |
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Thinking Space A joint publication between CABE, Futurelab and Portsmouth City Council, 'Thinking Space' is a FREE workshop resource aiming to support people involved with redesign and rebuild projects, such as Building Schools for the Future (BSF) and the Primary Capital Programmes (PCP). It provides ideas for workshop sessions which can help those in preparing for the visioning and pre-engagement phases. |
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WEAVE WEAVE offers an ordered environment for adults and children to represent their multiple realities and weave possible worlds from a combination of recycled materials, artefacts, light (natural and artificial) and space that can be encountered and reworked in endlessly changing ways. It provides a pallet of experiences for exploration and expression through a variety of activities: art, music, movement, dance, imaginative and role-play activities. |
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