Developing Creative Handson Exhibitions for children and Why
Developing Creative Hands-on Exhibitions for children – and Why OR 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 selfdirected 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, socialemotional 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
TRACK RECORD SINCE 2009 Through collaborations with other museums, public institutions and creative practitioners… > 120, 0 00 children & families engaged 160 > innovative programmes created 20% of which serve underprivileged children 1, 50 0 > 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 Winner of the Ben & Jerry’s “Join Our Core” Fan Choice Award 2014 Pacesetter in the Re-Imagine Learning Challenge by Lego Foundation 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 19 September 2015 3 April 2016 Hideaways – Creating With Nature 16 April 2016 – 30 October 2016
A World Full of Stories 15 November 2016 – 30 April 2017 Making It Home Dreaming Rooms, Making Spaces, Creating Places 16 May – 29 October 2017
Our installations – simple, applicable concepts
Shadowplay by Isabelle Desjeux
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: 1. Can your setting accommodate a hands-on activity or installation? 2. Is there a particular theme you want, or need to respond to? What is it? 3. How can you design the activity to be open-ended, so that each students has a valid, explorative experience, regardless of their ability level? 4. What resources are required to enable this? 5. What else is needed to make this happen?
Feedback from discussions - Point 1 Point 2 Point 3 Point 4
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