Re-imagining Play 2020

Designing resourceful playgrounds in refugee camps

Bangladesh

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Winner

1 Entry

Hrushikesh and Madhav

Labyrinth of Sanguinity

Struggle, Despair, Loss, Memory, Loss of Identity are just a few abbreviations for the feelings of refugees. The idea was to design a Distraction, from negative chaos of the refugee camps towards positive chaos of happiness, by creating a dynamic and provoking form.

Runner-up

1 Entry

Hanbyul

Light, Sound and Air

A playing module that help refugee children to feel the world through nature and be mentally cured

People's Choice Award

1 Entry

Noor and 2 others

324

Play-Hive

Play Hive is a reflective educational installation catered for a safe environment that hosts an educational and entertaining hub for children. The structure of the hives is designed as a self-sufficient tool that allows for kids to play and learn without the need of schools or teaching instructors.

Editor's Choice

8 Entries

Till

Modular Playground

A design for a modular playground consisting of a framed space structure to be deployed to refugee camps all over the world. It is envisioned that our design intervention through a careful consideration of the design's end user group - the children - we have designed opportunities for play supported by a safe and fun environment.

Tom

Play: Fragments of Their World

During conflicts families flee their country, seeking refuge in temporary camps. A lack of resources and infrastructure leads to many children losing their freedom to learn, develop and play. “Fragments of Their World” tackles these issues, using familiarity and the building of essential skills to provide the children with a brighter future.

Abdallah

The Faith

A playground that affects the child's present and future, it aims to make the child play and learn to forget the difficulties of the present and have hope for the future, a group of ideas that develop the child's thinking in a fun way.

Kertty and 3 others

Reconstituted Play

At the core of our project is the idea of creating an adaptable play landscape. The modular design fits into varying spatial arrangements ranging from linear to central gathering. We seek to give children the ability to physically transform their own environment with our design kit simply facilitating this exchange.

Lily and 2 others

Temporary Playground For A Permanent Place

“Temporary Playground For A Permanent Place” is a proposal for sensory play for children to freely explore their environment and foster resilience and confidence. The design responds to the site’s natural climate and physicality. It seeks to provide a feeling of safety in an otherwise challenging and unstable environment.

MANOGNA and 3 others

RE-UN Bound

The design targets at a play for the refugee children, it emphasizes on how play can do a lot more. Thinking beyond the conventional defined way of play and looking for possibilities of how different activities can help a child develop their communication, collaboration, creativity and confidence were focused on. Play is a necessity!

Nurul and 3 others

'Toolkit' of Self-Resilience

The process of re-imagining play has created a set of design principles that are explored through a series of modular typologies that are geared towards addressing the socio-cultural issues in the Kutupalong refugee camp through adaptable and flexible design.

Marwa

Connect

“Connect” is a modular system that utilizes traditional and cultural materiality and building to create an sense of identity within space. It activates the senses, which helps children learn applicable skills such as collaboration, building, confidence, and communication as they use the camps to explore and find objects to add on to grow each module to play.

Shortlisted

13 Entries

Mengyang

Creative Board

This is a modular design for local people to participate in construction and enjoyment. It has no complicated structure, but convenient cutting and splicing. The bottom is provided with a notch, which is convenient for changing the space attributes according to the user's purpose. We hope this is a space full of hope and creativity.

Lorena

RE/CREATION

Recreations Recreated.

Paul Suendermann

Reclaiming Childhood

A modular and versatile installation designed to create educational and joyful spaces for children in refugee camps. Our concept focuses on giving control back to neglected children while creating a safe space in a chaotic and hostile environment.

Nicholas and 2 others

176

Mineral Cave

Mineral Cave capitalises on the varying sun angle in Samos to create different coloured spaces at different times of the day. The visual colour-scape livens up the lives of the children who have been deprived of a safe and colourful childhood.

Sahar and 2 others

Cylinder Park

Plastic buckets are accumulating at a rate greater than they can be reused at many refugee camps. Cylinder Park is inspired by the endless possibilities of the humble bucket and more generally its cylindrical form, one that can be stretched, stacked, and multiplied. Taking the bucket and other utilitarian objects, we used these concepts to build a play kit.

Caroline and 2 others

Wander to Wonder

An architectural intervention that addresses the design of playgrounds through a modular system that stimulate the imagination of children living in the Kutupalong refugee camp.

amin and 3 others

102

The Main Dream

The best way to predict the future is to create it

BBM

BAMBOO BLOCK

A Creative Playground For Refugee Children

Matias

IN ONE, MANY, IN MANY, ONE

Looking at Community as the centre stage to creating a safe environment for play and education. Done through travelling containers carrying packed volumes, the former acting as a community anchor, and the latter as the engine for fun and growth. Together, they address education and play on multiple fronts, encouraging play, learning, and belonging.

Re-imagining Play 2020

Winner

Labyrinth of Sanguinity

Runner-up

Light, Sound and Air

People's Choice Award

Play-Hive

Editor's Choice

Modular Playground

Play: Fragments of Their World

The Faith

Reconstituted Play

Temporary Playground For A Permanent Place

RE-UN Bound

'Toolkit' of Self-Resilience

Connect

Shortlisted

Creative Board

RE/CREATION

Reclaiming Childhood

Mineral Cave

Cylinder Park

Wander to Wonder

The Main Dream

BAMBOO BLOCK

IN ONE, MANY, IN MANY, ONE

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