PLAYGROUND TEAM

1. PLAYGROUND TEAM RuteCoelho Laura Govoni Ana Jankovic ElderJusovic AgnieszkaKubacka GiorgiaOlezzi JoanaPulido

2. THE AIM OF OUR TEAM WORK: FIND ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: Is a playground an expression of wishes and needs of the youngest members of society or just adults ideas? How can adults adapt and respond to children’s needs and interests, how can they encourage kids to explore environment, and their town or city? How can adults build an education city with children participating in the decision making?

3. WHAT WE DID: We were using following methods: Observation Interview Analysing of children drawings.

4. OBSERVATION We visited Hultaand Annelundsparkenplaygrounds: →to see their structures → to collect some ideas → to use them like children.

5. THE HULTA PLAYGROUND

6. Playgroundequipment

7. Giorgia´schallenge

8. Rute is climbing

9. Looongway to go : Aga and Laura

10. Team is exhausted after fiveminutes walk…..

11. Aga is almost fallingdown

12. Let´s play………..

13. Numberfivemove your……….

14. THE ANNELUNDSPARKEN PLAYGROUND

15. INTERVIEW

16. We interviewed a father of two children in the Hulta playground. • Do you like this playground? • Do you think this playground is safe for your children? • Is this playground far from your home? Is it easy to come here?

17. Father´s interview: • He loved and enjoyed that place and that it was safe. • Sometimes his children needed his help to use it. He goes there with his children often and it is close to his house. • After that, we asked him to translate the following questions to his children: • “Do you like this playground?” • “What kind of equipment is missing here?”

18. The older child liked it. He would like a crane to be there and to play in the sandbox. The other child was too small to talk

19. THE EXHIBITION IN THE LIBRARY

20. Children express themselves.

21. Free expression

22. Children wants: • There should be playgrounds with many swings. •  There should be many swings, swings for everyone • There should be a statue of Zlatan because he is best in Sweden. • It should be visible from the highway and be great. • There should be much more flowers then now. •  There should be much more grass and flowers. •  There should be more water, like lakes.

23. There should be more trees and shrubs. • That makes you feel good. • There should be more animals. • I would like it to be like a jungle. • I hope we can have a big slide which is blue or red.

24. A football ground would be great, then we can run around and just play. • And in the winter the football ground can be a hockey ground.  • There should be many fun climbing.  

25. There should be a jet of water, or a kind of statue who can spray water on all the children. And if we are thirsty the statue will spray cola instead. • There should be candy trees. • There should be a cave with ghosts and troll

26. Model with a troll´scave

27. The future city of Borås – manytrees and big green space

28. ANALYZING CHILDREN`S DRAWS

29. Children are drawing – visit in a preschool

30. A littlegirl is drawing

31. A littlechild is able to express ownideas

32. Children drew swings, climbingequipment, swimming pool…

33. Another child´s design

34. OUR CONCLUSION In order to understandchildren´spoint of view and to lettheirvoice be heard in society, adultsshould come back to theirownchildhoodmemories. Theyshould be able to watch the reality with children´seyes.

35. In coming future, according to information we got from the teacher Monika Hammarnäs, a new playground will be build in the city of Borås and children will be asked about it and their opinion will be considered.

36. THANK YOU FOR TIME AND FOR YOUR ATENTION!