Developing Creative Hands-on Exhibitions for children – and Why Creating hands-on environments: You can do it too Anna Salaman Playeum

PLAYEUM Playeum is an independent charity which champions children through play and creativity. Founders: Sumitra Pasupathy and Jennifer Loh

Playeum... Develops innovative and high-quality play spaces, programmes and products, designed to encourage open-ended and self- directed learning; Runs professional development sessions for parents, educators and artists to transform mindsets and behavior; Systematically serves the disadvantaged and marginalized children in our society, such as The School Readiness Programme for children from low-income households, social- emotional wellbeing programmes, and building creative public sector/private sector partnerships.

The Centre’s pedagogy: Open-ended Self-directed Child-led Our underlying philosophy: Children are creative and competent

120,000 children & families engaged 160 innovative programmes created TRACK RECORD SINCE 2009 Through collaborations with other museums, public institutions and creative practitioners… 120,000 children & families engaged 160 innovative programmes created 20% of which serve underprivileged children 1,500 stakeholders trained 9* international awards > > > *Find out more about our achievements in this video Playeum | partnership

our 9 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS Prize Winner of the British Council ELEVATE Startwell Challenge 2015 Pacesetter in the Re-Imagine Learning Challenge by Lego Foundation 2014 Winner of the Ben & Jerry’s “Join Our Core” Fan Choice Award 2014 Honourable Mention in UNICEF’s Inclusive Play Space Design Ideas Competition 5 awards from the UK Campaign for Drawing 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 Playeum | partnership

The Children’s Centre for Creativity Opened 19 Sept 2015 at Gillman Barracks for children aged 1 to 12

Changing themes provide: The environment The provocations (tools and resources) Facilitation Creative direction An interdisciplinary programme

The Art of Speed Hideaways – Creating With Nature 19 September 2015 - 3 April 2016 Hideaways – Creating With Nature 16 April 2016 – 30 October 2016

A World Full of Stories Making It Home Dreaming Rooms, Making Spaces, Creating Places 16 May – 29 October 2017 15 November 2016 – 30 April 2017

Our installations – simple, applicable concepts

Shadowplay by Isabelle Desjeux

children’s imaginations Feeds children’s imaginations Promotes creative literacy Encourages social and emotional development Celebrates speech, language and drama Unrivalled opportunities for story-building and role-play

Story Cubes and Book Corner

A Film Full of Stories

Interplay by Richard Kearns

Open-ended dress-up

Look and Feel Cave

Listen and Speak Cave

The Story Raft

Hoisting the flag on the Story Raft

Marine activities Sand Play & Glass Art

Puppetry in the Play Making Space

The Story Booth and Post us a Story

Some questions for you: Can your setting accommodate a hands-on activity or installation? Is there a particular theme you want, or need to respond to? What is it? How can you design the activity to be open-ended, so that each students has a valid, explorative experience, regardless of their ability level? What resources are required to enable this? What else is needed to make this happen?

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