playful, purposeful

‘It’s difficult and it’s fun. It’s difficult fun.’

Assaf (age 5) / project: Precarious Places

What would you like to learn about next?

Everything that is inside your body and what's inside the bones.

Why is the sun on earth and also in space?

Crocodiles, inside their mouths.

How to know which time it is without using the clock?

Maybe everything what we already do we connect to each other so then it's going to be a bigger idea…

Ellie, Wawrina, Niv, George, Kristián (age 5-6) / project: Look very closely!

playful, purposeful / experimenting

  • trying things out

  • exploring materials and processes

  • testing hypotheses

  • building prototypes

  • creating, combining, re-mixing

  • asking what happens if

  • noticing changes and working out causes

  • borrowing, adopting, adapting ideas

playful, purposeful / difficult fun

  • working with complex ideas and practices

  • learning intricate skills

  • welcoming uncertainty and the unknown

  • developing a playful mindset

  • daring to try something new

  • engaging with the unpredictable

  • being willing to ‘fail’ and try again

playful, purposeful / design and invention

playful, purposeful / playable places

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  • translating ideas into material forms

  • constructing, testing, adapting

  • wondering and imagining

  • defining problems, exploring possible solutions

  • exchanging starting points, perspectives, processes

  • exploring aesthetics and the beauty of things that work well

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  • inventing games of motion, energy, chance, daring

  • inviting lighthearted ways to connect to locations

  • developing play strategies, roles and negotiations

  • improvising games, grids, arenas

  • exploring through ‘messing about’ processes and humour

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