{"id":7925,"date":"2018-10-30T16:16:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T15:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/?p=7925\/"},"modified":"2018-10-30T16:16:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T15:16:16","slug":"what-is-a-truly-playful-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/en\/what-is-a-truly-playful-city\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Truly Playful City?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Presenter at Nordic Urban Lab 2018: Christian Pagh, Founder &amp; Culture director at Urgent.Agency<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>What is a truly playful city? Presenting a radical answer to this question, the consulting company <a href=\"http:\/\/urgent.agency\/category\/urgent\/\">Urgent.Agency<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.big.dk\/#projects\">Bjanke Ingels Group (BIG)<\/a> have fostered an urban vision that puts children squarely at the center of urban design. While the Danish town, Billund, is best known for being the headquarters of the company LEGO, the small town is now setting standards for holistic and creative urban planning proposals that aims to create a town designed for and with children &#8211; looking at cities from a children perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Upon the invitation of the city of Billund, Urgent.Agency and Bjanke Ingels Group (BIG) completed a vision and strategy document and master plan along with research into the topics of children and play.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3327 alignleft\" style=\"outline: #72777c solid 1px; height: 205px; text-align: left; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; max-width: 996px; orphans: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/christian-p3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"714\" height=\"245\" \/><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stakeholders: <\/strong>Planning department &#8211; town of Billund, residents of Billund, Lego company and associated theme parks and hospitality companies, kindergartens, schools, families.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>CREATING A CHILD-FRIENDLY CITY AND VISION FOR BILLUND<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>BIG and Urgent.Agency was hired to create a master plan for Billund, which is primarily suburban developments and an isolated tourist destination, both separated from a mostly empty town center. The community is car-dependent an<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">d the social life of the town is oriented around sports.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3314\" style=\"width: 456px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3314\" class=\"wp-image-3314\" style=\"margin: 8px 0px 8px 16px; outline: #72777c solid 1px; height: 372px; text-align: left; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; max-width: 996px; orphans: 2; float: right; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/christian-pagh8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"324\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Pagh at Hanaholmen, Nordic Urban Lab, 2018<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The town&#8217;s planning office originally intended to extend suburban developments for more residents. In the new strategy children and play should be central to the plan of the town, as the toy company Lego is central to the reputation and industry of Billund.<\/p>\n<p>In order to create a holistic, cultural planning strategy that would make Billund truly child-friendl<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">y and creative, Urgent.Agency set out to discover what the everyday experience for children in Billund is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"> They found that most of the children wanted informal meeting places, where they could hang out with their friends as well as they were also involved in sports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Christian adds: &#8220;<em>I agree that the predominant discourse of architecture is young men \u2013 skaters, basketball players, parkours [SIC]. What about the old people and children? There&#8217;s a gender and generation focus you can take. We have a catalogue of ideas where you open up what you can do with public space. It&#8217;s about integrating movement into what&#8217;s going on, not dividing 10 year old kids over there and grandma over there &#8211; you need to gather people.<\/em>&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The team determined that the town center was a non-place for children, so they proposed that the town center should be densified, with urban infrastructure for &#8216;soft&#8217; traffic (cars, bikes) and connections to the tourist attractions, work functions, and residential areas. Sports areas would be brought into the center of the town. <span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Streets would be mixed-use, accessible to children.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #333300;\">&#8220;Child-friendly planning means pedestian-friendly planning<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">\u201c<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ability to move with a feeling of safety is very important not only for children, but for their parents.<\/p>\n<p>Christian says: &#8220;We did a lot of studies into play as a tool for learning and more; much research showed that the most important thing for a parent is to see a child succeed. If you can convince parents that your town is the best place for children to grow up, that&#8217;s a strong selling point &#8211; more tax-payers move to the community. Great facilities for kids learning, getting skills \u2013 pursue that as a place-branding tool.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly &#8211; and more exciting&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333300;\"><em><strong>&#8220;Really what would be fun for kids is also fun for adults&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Christian continues: &#8220;To go into a workshop, see a bakery, see the blacksmith. I might be romanticizing the old village where kids could run around and see how life was unfolding and how things were produced. But today, most that has to do with production is concealed, except hipsters on caf\u00e9s. Opening the offices, service functions and other workplaces centrally located can become part of a lively urban scenery, which kids would love (and is much more fun for adults).<\/p>\n<p>Playful doesn&#8217;t have to be on the streets only, with funky urban design. This idea of how to open up work life and make that present in urbanity is really interesting. And that is also culture &#8211; most of the time we work or use transportation etc.<em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3331\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/christianp4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/christianp4.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/christianp4-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/christianp4-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/christianp4-700x438.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>CULTURE OF CONNECTIVITY<\/h5>\n<p>Central to the child-friendly theme was the city form: <span style=\"color: #333300;\"><em><strong>\u201ckids don&#8217;t like order.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/em><\/span>They like small-scale, surprising locations.<\/p>\n<p>Most home situations in Denmark are single-family houses with big driveways and a lot of space between neighbours, but more and more people seek out socially-oriented ways of living, with shared functions and shared streets. Urgent.Agency proposed soft solutions such as a prize for whomever opened a facade in the most interesting way for shared use.<\/p>\n<p>Other temporary planning included maker labs, an urban life booster to award new initiatives, competitions for kids, and collaborations with schools to use public spaces for learning opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Urgent.Agency proposed a biannual festival of urban play, with a new aspect from an artist or company for every iteration that would also add art, creative urban furniture etc. to the city. \u00a0A new playful infrastructure \u2013 Playline \u2013 could thus be developed over time, with the festival activities contributing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333300;\"><strong><em>\u201cDoing a festival or event has the potential to become the grease to allow people to work together afterwards,\u201d said Pagh.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The idea was to create a culture of connectivity and creativity, to manifest the idea of a playful city.<\/p>\n<p>Other proposals in the plan included an urban forum to ensure knowledge sharing across sectors to support urban development, outline strategy for new investments, and develop initiatives related the vision.\u00a0 Manifestos, action plans, and organizational frameworks were written which included priorities such as density, diversity, and co-creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Major challenges included the planning department&#8217;s lack of staff and limited expertise. The staff&#8217;s limited time and energy made it difficult to motivate individuals to drive the plan forward.<\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><b>FROM VISION TO IMPLEMENTATION<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/christian-p1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"778\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/christian-p1.png 778w, https:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/christian-p1-300x51.png 300w, https:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/christian-p1-768x131.png 768w, https:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/christian-p1-700x120.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new plan and vision for Billund, made by Urgent.Agency is not yet being implemented. The urban forum has become inactive and the soft planning measures are not being arranged.<\/p>\n<p>However, important lessons have been learned, both by Urgent.Agency and the town of Billund&#8217;s administration &#8211; urban forums are only as good as the people involved, plans are only implemented when people have the resources and willpower to drive them forward, and organizational frameworks are not, by themselves, solutions. Planning is an iterative, continuous activity that requires on-going engagement and dedication.<\/p>\n<p>The main deliverable was a 450-page book with the vision, master plan, and extensive research. Urgent.Agency found that books are not the best format for communication. Shorter and more selected communication might have conveyed the plan more effectively to people who were not able to manage a long text. Also, Urgent.Agency proposed to roll out a program for public servants and relevant partner companies to bring the vision to life and create ambassadors for the vision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Whose responsibility was it to implement the plan?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christian explains: &#8220;<em>The project was funded by Kirkbi, the foundation behind Lego, the foundation Realdania and the municipality of Billund , so it was a trio of partners. In a sense it was the town authorities that would be the immediate respondent, but they were incredibly understaffed. There was no ability to bring this to life in the organization at that point. It&#8217;s dependent upon having a person there to make stuff happen. It&#8217;s not to say that we couldn&#8217;t have been there more or couldn&#8217;t have been better. Sometimes you can&#8217;t. <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333300;\"><b><i>If people don&#8217;t want the cak<\/i><\/b><i><b>e, it&#8217;s hard to serve it to them<\/b>. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>New people are coming onboard and they&#8217;re trying to do something. It&#8217;s important that you try to make the deliverable more digestible than a huge book. Something stupidly banal like a flyer or a poster for the office, so they can remember that it&#8217;s been done. It has changed the mindset in the department. They have to be stricter with things \u2013 no , don&#8217;t build in the periphery, build in the center. It made a feeling of possibility in the planning department.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h5><b>FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECT<\/b><\/h5>\n<p>The project is starting to grow \u2013 and many things are happening in Billund. New organizational structures are being created, that might bring new fuel to the process.<\/p>\n<p>The project needs the buy-in of the town administration, and investment of time, person-power, and resources.<\/p>\n<p>The project&#8217;s future is still in making. Recently, initiatives have been taken to boost the main new playful infrastructure project \u2013 the Playline. The mediating secretariat Capital of Children is also boosting its activities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3326\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot; times new roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;bitstream charter&amp;quot;,times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: 293px; letter-spacing: normal; max-width: 996px; orphans: 2; outline-color: #72777c; outline-style: solid; outline-width: 1px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/christian-p2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/christian-p2.png 548w, https:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/christian-p2-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Documentation by:\u00a0Linza Itkonen, Aalto University &amp; University of Helsinki<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presenter at Nordic Urban Lab 2018: Christian Pagh, Founder &amp; Culture director at Urgent.Agency \u00a0 What is a truly playful city? 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