A day course for West Melbourne architects, landscape architects and teachers will share strategies for creating challenging but safe play places for children.
Children’s play spaces, parks and play equipment must be safe, but are ideally able to engineer risky behaviour for challenge, growth, competence and learning. The course in West Melbourne, run by Jeavons Landscape Architects and supported by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, aims to help providers learn how to negotiate spaces so that they are fulfilling while building confidence and competence.
Covered in the course will be the benefits and inherent value in risky play, supported by the theories of how children play. There will also be scenarios of how children with adults can engage in challenges, and there will be a review of current and past projects that can inform strategies going forward. The program will end with a question-and-answer session with the panel.
Those attending will receive a Professional Learning Certificate. Courses like this one that award certificates or diplomas can take advantage of local printing services to produce them.
A seminar on Enabling Risky Play Outdoors is taking place on Friday, 29 May, from 8.30 am until 4 pm. The venue is the City of Melbourne Bowls Club, Flagstaff Gardens, Dudley Street, West Melbourne. Tickets cost $125 for online admittance or $290 for the in-person course.
