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Sep 15, 2021 · Researchers have been studying methods of reimagining public spaces to create playful learning opportunities for children. In order to be effective in educating children, public play spaces need to adhere to the 6 principles of learning.
- A New Approach to Child-Friendly Urban Design: Playful Learning Landscapes
- Scaling Playful Learning in Cities
- Measuring Playful Learning Landscapes Outcomes
- Playful Learning Landscapes Metrics Framework
- Challenges and Next Steps
PLL is an emerging, interdisciplinary area of study and practice that reimagines the potential of cities as supportive ecosystems for children and families by marrying urban design and placemaking with the science of learning. The Brookings Institution, in collaboration with Temple University and the Playful Learning Landscapes Action Network (PLLA...
A growing number of cities around the world—including Philadelphia, Chicago, Santa Ana, CA, London, Mumbai, and others—are embracing PLL to support children’s learning outcomes and promote urban renewal, but efforts to scale and sustain these interventions are nascent. To fully realize the potential benefits of PLL, cities need more than a handful ...
For city leaders, community organizations, the private sector, and philanthropy to put time and resources into expanding PLL, they need hard evidence that it works. This requires a framework that outlines the desired outcomes of PLL and a set of metrics for measuring whether or not those outcomes are achieved. As Senior Fellow Jenny Perlman-Robinso...
Our work to create a PLL metrics framework began with a landscape analysis to survey existing frameworks and tools around measurement and evaluation of playful learning in cities. To create goals and metrics from the child development perspective, we turned to the rich and growing body of research that demonstrates PLL increases caregivers’ attitud...
The “Playful Learning Landscapes metrics framework” is a key step toward generating data that are critical for scaling by helping to define the desired outcomes of playful learning in public and shared spaces, and importantly, how they are measured. But measuring the impact of public spaces isn’t easy—getting the metrics “right” is likely to be an ...
Dec 4, 2023 · Our new blog series showcases how public spaces can be made better for children. Using global examples from Cities4Children members and other initiatives, our aim is to spotlight ideas for action, innovation, programmes, policies and practice that make public spaces child friendly.
By 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, particularly for women and children, older persons and persons with disabilities. Superkilen public space in Copenhagen © Iwan Baan / BIG.
Sep 9, 2021 · To support children's learning, public play spaces need to be designed in line with the six principles of learning, which reflect how children absorb new information most effectively.
This consultation aims to capture children’s perspectives and lived experience in the public spaces in their communities. The questions focused on four different characteristics of that experience: 1. Proximity and accessibility, as children should be able to access public spaces independently within walking or biking distance; 2.
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Rethinking public spaces for creative learning. That’s why we’ve transformed often mundane public spaces into places of learning through play to foster interaction, conversation and real learning in areas like language, literacy and STEM subjects.
