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Play for All: Designing Dynamic Public Spaces

Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024
5:00pm to 6:00pm

Part of: Edmonton Design Week: Cultivate the Unexpected

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In this hands-on, charrette-style event, we’ll explore, design, and create placemaking interventions through the lens of play. How can we transform public spaces into playful, dynamic, engaging, and active places for all ages? How can we make sure these places embrace and welcome everyone? How can placemaking interventions go from transformation, to activation, to eventually become destinations in their own right?

This charette invites designers and design enthusiasts of all levels to imagine what’s possible for a revitalized Michael Phair Park, envisioning how playful activations could inspire creativity, foster community connections, and help transform the park into a vibrant, inclusive, and dynamic destination for all ages. Architects from hcma will coach and inspire with their own notes from the field designing successful placemaking interventions like Alley Oop and Ackery’s Alley in Vancouver, and Confetti at Michael Phair Park.


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