Balena
Design for an urban playscape
Within the framework of the Plan for Playing in Public Space. Horizon 2030, the QueraltSuau studio was commissioned to design a playable Whale in the Central Park of Nou Barris- an idea that was encouraged by the imagination of several groups of children from the neighborhood who participated in a co-creative process for ideas for a playable city. We addressed the complexity of this project from a critical perspective that procures to explore strategic concerns, ranging over: how to work with the game in public space as a strategy to resignify the place and build shared spaces; how to define a coherent game system, leaving room for imagination, free play and experimentation; how to constitute a sensory and material experience, where game at different scales assumes the participation of diverse ages and conditions, with the maximum possibility of itineraries, routes and actions.
