Over 200 volunteers
Over 18 schools
Over 40,000 children
2 Continents
1000s of creative ideas
regenerative spaces
Designing spaces that regenerate nature and play.
Dream Networks works with communities to co-design playful environments that strengthen ecosystems, belonging, and local agency.
We have co-created the Place Canvas app to enable children and youth to contribute to climate action and to the creation of the regenerative spaces we need to build sustainable cities and communities.
place canvas
Co-Designing Playful Spaces that
Regenerate Nature and Community
Place Canvas empowers children and youth to engage in climate resilience by visualising possibilities for a more inclusive and regenerative future.
5 Steps to Co-producing a Climate Resilent Future
Place Canvas was co-designed in the countries that are most affected by the adverse impacts of climate change.
It offers an accessible tool that empowers community members to share tangible designs with decision-makers through stories, images and data insight.
We are focusing the global effort to build a more climate-just world on the perspectives of children, youth, and other groups often marginalised in formal planning systems.
We are committed to adapting the app with trained community members to ensure the application is developed responsibly, with care, respect and capacity building.
5 Steps to Co-producing a Climate Resilent Future
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1. Capture the place.
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2. Share stories & ideas.
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3. Add images & lived experiences to the App
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4. Partner with AI to generate possibilities.
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5. Communities &planners assess feasibility.
Reveal Vulnerabilities
'The street always floods when it rains, we have to walk in dirty water to school"
Youth perspective used to generate prompt and image
It is simple to understand, and even the steps are simple. The speed and latency were superb
Discover Possibilities
Evaluate Feasibility
The application generates clear and useful images that make flood risk assessment more visual and understandable.
People
A design process that supports people to shape their designs based on their lived experiences.
Power
Empowering Communities to co-design their sustainable futures and propose local solutions
Planet and Play
Partnering with AI to generate solutions that are climate resilient, feasible and locally sustained.
Play regenerates biodiversity and social connection.
Dream Networks CIC partners with Artificial Intelligence as a participatory tool to support and enhance our mission to create Play4All.
We do not engage with AI as a replacement for human judgment, lived experience, or community knowledge.
Co-Producers
The Place Canvas was made possible through collaborating with communities, universities and local authorities from across the United Kingdom, East Africa and Australia.
