
Over 180 volunteers

Over 10 schools

Over 40,000 children

2 Continents

100s of creative ideas
Reimagining Play
⚲ London
We are grateful to have been shortlisted with Projects Office, for the London Festival of Architecture and Dulwich Picture Gallery Reimagining Play competition. The competition invited concepts for a playful sculpture that would inspire wonder and joy for visitors of all ages. We created the Willow Way, a regenerative, fluid playful space that celebrated nature and different ways of playing.
Willow Way competition submission by Projects Office and Dream Networks CIC

Co-design Workshop at Rye Oak School
Clear themes and priorities emerged for play and the play spaces:
- Sensory experiences: how places sound and feel to the touch.
- Inclusion: wheelchair accessibility; range of different experiences possible.
- Imagination: features and spaces that spark ideas, that resemble other things, or that can be used creatively. Space for dreaming and pretending.
- Movement: climbing; running, rolling, crawling, counting, jumping, dancing, hopping.
- Discovering: hide and seek, exploring
- Playing with others, including ball games
Building on these key themes, the team worked together - drawing on our professional experience to define three key playful interactions for the play sculpture.
- Moving
- Looking
- Feeling


creating INTERGENERATIONAL play at Dulwich Picture Gallery




What the 25 children, parents, and grandparents produced 4 days after during the workshops truly amazed us. A fantastically wonky tunnel, made out of cardboard, makedo connectors, autumn leaves, their decorations,memories,imaginationsand collective agencies.