"The playground, instead of telling the child what to do, becomes a place for endless exploration, of endless opportunity for changing" - Isamu Noguchi
In Changing Play, the participants will be invited to reconnect with their inner child while exploring the typology of the playground as an architectural, experiential interface of humans, objects, and space. In a hands-on, practical workshop we will experiment with paper model-making, provoke the initial architectural design process and focus on thinking through making. By learning techniques of paper model making, we will investigate the playground as a landscape of endless possibilities. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the qualities of the paper as a material, learn about the power of scale, and create a ritual of play. An introductory lecture will cover the workshop’s core themes and act as a background of knowledge to the following exercises. Through two exercises, the participants will experiment with transforming 2D materials like paper into 3D artefacts representing architectural visions. In the end, participants will take part in a discussion, presenting their work both individually and as a collective, connected to one playground. (Optional, depending on the number of participants and outcomes: gathering the various projects and connecting them to a unified image that will act as a new, continuous playground). On successful completion of the workshop, participants would be able to: (1) engage with relevant tools and techniques in quick model-making, (2) work with scale and understand its influence on our perception, (3) understand paper and its plastic qualities and abilities, (4) demonstrate an understanding of playground typology.