Two children from Britannia Village assisted us in the session for local residents. We set up ramp building equipment and materials for making drawings to influence the supergraphic designs of the new playable landscape. We spent time interviewing users of the cafe in Thames Barrier Park and some families engaged with us to build and draw.
A woman and her two sons made a variety of ramps and tested them for speed, they said they live locally and would be likely to use the new playable landscape.
Walking in Barrier Park East with the two children, they revealed the place in their terms, what they most wanted to do was explore the dense shrubbery. This was carried out and resulted in a little mild fear, getting dirty and being out of the view of the other park users. Afterwards the children said we’d ‘had an adventure.’
The children began to take ownership of the design and the future play space during this session by explaining the plans to strangers, measuring a variety of structures to get a sense of how the 20cm ramps will be, measuring, gradients, steps and the columns under the DLR.
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