Renforcer les droits de jouer Reinforce the right to play Meeting in Munich 23rd -25th of November 2011 Good practice case « Music design for a playground » APFRSL - Association pour la Promotion de la Formation et de la Recherche Montpellier, France

Music design for a playground APFRSL - Association pour la Promotion de la Formation et de la Recherche Montpellier, France  The playground is situated in the heart of the city  The play area is for children in the age of 2 to 12

Overall view on the playground

Unusual design for playground equipments

Different playground equipments to explore the space

General topic = music instruments Strange form – for doing what?

It looks like loudspreakers- but without making noise

Interesting perspective : How can children appropriate such an equipment?

Observation : the music design leads to an unritual use … … after having discovered that there is no sound coming out …

… but there are equipments to create different sounds. Observation :

Other equipments for moving

Behaviour observations … … show different approaches to discover the space and the equipments.

The youngest children are surprised and disappointed when they arrive for the first time on the playground

Older children get quickly familiar with the music design :  They search if they can listen to music sounds  Then they start to play with the equipment in a completely free creative way.

The environment of the playground A duck pond close to the playground

Renforcer les droits de jouer Reinforce the right to play Meeting in Munich 23rd -25th of November 2011 Thank you very much for your attention. Merci beaucoup de votre attention. Vielen Dank für Ihre Aufmerksamkeit. APFRSL - Association pour la Promotion de la Formation et de la Recherche Montpellier, France