Creating inclusive play spaces: a place to start

If one hundred people wrote a guide to creating inclusive play spaces the result would be one hundred different guides. That’s no bad thing, they could be a hundred fantastic and useful guides filled with innovative and creative ideas, but, “inclusive” is not a fixed state. And as it is informed by multiple ever changingContinue reading “Creating inclusive play spaces: a place to start”

Let me process my sensory processing

content warning: this post contains discussion of mental health and has self harm mentions I’m a sensitive guy When I say I’m Sensitive, I really mean it, in its most literal sense. Certain noises make me flinch and squirm, certain lights make me nauseous, and food is a textural minefield. Wagon wheels (a biscuit withContinue reading “Let me process my sensory processing”

A Playful Manifesto #1

Within any finite set of criteria there exist infinite ways of being. In play we discover these, play is a space where we explore our possible selves, and how we relate to our environment and other people. We learn to construct space for ourselves, we build, we destroy, we rebuild. Again and again and again.Continue reading “A Playful Manifesto #1”