Play Attention

If You Could Change One Thing…

Over the past year, we’ve asked every Play Attention guest the same question: if you could click your fingers and change one thing tomorrow to improve opportunities for p

What Does "Enough Play" Really Mean?

What does it actually mean for children to have enough opportunities to play? In this episode, Beth Cooper is joined by Mike Barclay and Ben Tawil from Ludicology to exp

The Spaces That Shape Us

This week on Play Attention, Beth is joined by India-based landscape architect Parth Divekar, founder of Grade Landscape Architecture, whose work spans luxury residential

Creating Space for Risk: Lessons from the Fear Less Play Project

"You can have the most beautifully designed play space, but if the adults standing around the outside are flooded with anxiety, that is going to impact the function of th

Play Isn’t a Place. It’s the Whole Plan.

In this episode of Play Attention, we sit down with Scott Chalmers, Head of Green Infrastructure at Urban&Civic, to challenge the assumption that play belongs in a design

"We Call Ourselves Childhood Conservationists"

In this episode of Play Attention, we sit down with someone we’ve admired for many years - Ash Perrin, co-founder and CEO of the Flying Seagull Project. Timberplay and t

Why Flattening Abstraction Flattens Play

In this episode of Play Attention, Beth Cooper speaks with designer, educator and author Cas Holman about her new book, Playful, and why reclaiming free play matters just

Play Equipment: The Most Underrated Urban Infrastructure

In this episode of Play Attention, Beth Cooper is joined by Anamaria Castillo, Landscape Strategies Director at KALQ Studio, who argues that if landscape architects want

Legitimising Play as the Outcome

Leeds is quietly doing something radical: treating play as an essential outcome in its own right. In this episode of Play Attention, host Beth Cooper is joined by Emma B

Building a Play Strategy for England with Eugene Minogue

England is closer than it has been in years to a new national play strategy.  In this debut episode of The Play Attention Podcast, host Beth Cooper sits down with Eugene