Finding the fun in the street
The way in which the public use the urban environment is always of interest to us at Citysquared. We watch what’s going on whenever we are out and about, and one of the themes that’s beginning to develop within our research is the use of the street as a playground. This concept is illustrated in these series of photographs
You say sundial, I say climbing frame
They show both the spontaneous use of street furniture and the premeditated use of the street based play areas like those in Stevenage (not sure how much longer they will remain there though).
Stevenage intergrated street play area
There is an emerging demographic grouping that we are working on and we are begining to look at how this natural behaviour can be intergrated within specific product designs. In the meantime we will continue to collect source material and post anything that might be of interest.
