Emma Simonsson on Lekotoper - open lecture
11 February
13.00 – 14.00
On how nature and co-creation can work as tools to create environments for play and development
Free admission
Please pre-register your attendance with karin@fargfabriken.se
Emma Simonsson will talk about her work on practice-based research projects implementing “Lekotoper,” naturalistic play landscapes with a strong emphasis on high play and experience value. The goal of these projects has been to find alternatives to conventional playgrounds, which are often open, paved, and one-dimensional, and to demonstrate the potential for designing play environments with greater diversity, offering children more opportunities for challenges and experiences.
In collaboration with Örebro Municipality, the ideas from the Lekotop work have been tested on a real scale in Hjälmarviksparken, where a significant part of the naturalistic environment has been custom-built under the municipality’s direction.
About Emma Simonsson
Emma Simonsson is a landscape architect educated at SLU Alnarp and the ETSAM School of Architecture in Madrid. Since 2012, she has been working at Urbio as a designing and planning landscape architect in various types of projects, often focusing on the design of naturalistic environments in urban contexts.
The lecture is part of the course Environmental Learning and Spatial Practice with Young People, taught at KTH.
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