Welcome to the Free Play Network
The Free Play Network is a network of individuals and organisations, which
aims to promote the need for better play opportunities for children.
Friday 21 November 2008, 10am - 4:30pm, Wyvis
Street Community Centre, London
This workshop is now
fully booked. Further workshops will be taking place in the
New Year. For further information please contact Nicola Butler
by email to nbutler at freeplaynetwork.org.uk.
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An online presentation based on the forthcoming
Play England guide, Design for Play: a guide to creating successful
play spaces is now available on the Free
Play Network website or as a pdf file on the Play
England website.
Design for Play includes 10 design principles
which are at the core of a fresh, design-led approach to commissioning,
and which are encapsulted in one 'golden rule':
'A successful play space is a place in its own
right, specially designed for its location. Designers should
take a holistic perspective on designing for play. Play opportunities
should be embedded in the site as a whole.'
www.freeplaynetwork.org.uk/designforplay
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Online Discussion Forum Highlights
It's worth remembering why attitudes to, and understandings
about, risk matter. There is a danger that discussions about
risk become focused on, and are reduced to, the merely technical.
But how we think about and respond to risk in part defines
what it is we think it is to be human.
http://www.freeplaynetwork.org.uk/playlink/risk.
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The second in a series of PLAYLINK
and Free Play Network online discussion fora is now closed.
Linked with the Places
of Woe: Places of Possibility exhibition, the forum explored
ideas and practice involved in creating best possible places
for play. Read our concluding
remarks.
http://www.freeplaynetwork.org.uk/playlink/placesforplay
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PLAYLINK
and the Free Play Network have launched a new addition to
their free, online photo exhibition, PLACES for PLAY. Places
of Woe: Places of Possibility shows just how bad play
provision can be - and how good.
http://www.freeplaynetwork.org.uk/playlink/
exhibition/woepossibility
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Too often poor design robs children of vital opportunities
to learn and be healthy and wastes public money. PLACES for
PLAY is intended to inspire a more imaginative approach to
the creation of play spaces and public space, one founded
on understanding the needs and wishes of children.
More information about
PLACES for PLAY >>
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You can help support better play opportunities for children by
joining the Free Play Network.
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