Juegaterapia Playground Improving Everyday Life

expanding design practices, High Density, Politics and economics, Project

Architecture&nature, Artificial nature, Children, City views, Cognitive approach, Colors, Comfortable environment, Design, Designer’s role, Green roof, Health, Health contributor, Landscape, Materials, Playground, Project, Resilience, Rooftop, Spain, Structure, Textile, User's experience, Valencia, Well-being

Team:
Lorena del Río and Iñaqui Carnicero
Takuma Johnson, Liam Martin, Amy Hyemin Jang
Contractor: Ferrovial
Consultants: Lastra Zorrilla

This work is the result of the collaboration with Juegaterapia, a non-profit foundation that improves the living conditions of children with cancer. They began by delivering donated play-stations to children to be used during chemo treatments, but they have expanded their agenda and now they transform rooftops and leftover spaces for installations in pediatric hospitals into playgrounds for hospitalized children. This project offered a great opportunity to test out how design can shape perception, cognition and experience and most, importantly, how it can be instrumental in improving everyday life.