
Lets Play! No matter what your age is you are welcome to design your own environment
Proto and Finnish Association of Design Learning with their partners organise design workshops for all ages through spring 2026. The exciting outcomes are on display in Pikisaari in the summer, and come autumn a real play environment will develop.
Play belongs to all of us and we are all allowed to participate in designing our living environment. Proto — Designers of Northern Finland and Finnish Association of Design Learning will train Design Ambassadors in the autumn 2025. Design workshops for people of all ages will be organised in Oulu region through the spring months of 2026.
Outcomes of the workshops will be on display in an exhibition in Pikisaari — and as visitor you are invited to assess and to develop designs further. We’ll discuss play and the outcomes also in an international event to give a real push for realisation of a hopefully radically new play environment. Lets Play then!
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climate change
Play is one of the great means opening our mind for creativity and for collaborative actions. Children do this intuitively and happily, sometimes we adults have lost some of the agility required but, start to play and it all comes back. Through design workshops we shall organise and by displaying the outcomes in an exhibition, we at Proto wish to encourage a positive change towards a more playful cultural life.
Design has a great advantage being a language but a language where words are not always necessary, encouraging interaction and dialogue through drawing and crafting.
When and where
Organisers
Proto: Päivi Tahkokallio, Hanna Savolainen, Ami Avéllan; Finnish Association of Design Learning: Mari Savio, Paula Susitaival; Oulu: Urban and Environmental Services; Culture Centre for Children and Youth; Steam in Oulu; Oulu-opisto; Konstrundan