Guest lecture: Planning of Play Space • from strategic to implementation level

After the first introductory session of the workshop with students and mentors, we dug into the “playmaking” challenges with a guest lecturer, dr. Maja Simoneti, a licensed landscape architect and spatial planner from IPoP – Institute for Spatial Policies. Maja used to work in spatial planning and landscape design for twenty years before she first joined IPoP in 2009; she is also a former president of the Association of Landscape Architects of Slovenia. Her main interests and expertise are public participation, placemaking, and sustainable urban development, green space planning and spatial literacy. The delivered lecture was intended to enlighten the planning process of playscapes, its specifics and essentials, from strategic to implementation level.

The lecture was followed by a lively discussion among all participating students and mentors, debating the balances between the built, the social, the ecological and the artistic qualities of a place.

We thank Maja and the IPOP institute to share their knowledge and experiences with us and students!