Announcements & Writings

PLAYLINK’s energies are deployed over four broad areas: design; consultancy; learning; writings. Our ability to draw upon and work across the four areas is a core PLAYLINK strength. Each aspect of our work informs the other.

Risk-benefit assessments – examples »

PLAYLINK risk-benefit assessments on its own designs. These are given to clients. We then see our schemes through to completion. The aim here is simply to share a general approach and a way for reasoning.

We intend to publish a number our risk-benefit assessments on the PLAYLINK web site. We welcome comment and critique of our approach. Becoming familiar with, and confident about, the risk-benefit assessment process is very much work in progress.

Risk-benefit Assessment Workshops for Play Providers »

The workshop aims to enhance practitioners' understanding of, and confidence to address, risk in play.

Consultancy services »

We’re covering a wide range of commissions for local authorities, agencies and RSLs. We deploy Associates with a wide range of skills, knowledge and experience.

Play Value Assessment »

Assistance with all aspects of thinking about and creating playable spaces in a wide range of settings.

Risk-benefit Assessment Form »

The form, with its introductory notes, aims to assist play providers undertake risk-benefit assessments as recommended in ‘Managing Risk in Play Provision: implementation guide’. Its substantive purpose is to prompt and support a more mature, reasoned and reasonable attitude to risk in play.

Slow Build for Playscapes by Grant Lambie »

Through the 20th Century, social philosophers from Alvin Toffler1 to Paul Virilio2 write about ‘the speed of change’ having negative effects on our social fabric, including child development. With the advent of the Slow Movement’s reaction to speed, can this be translated into playscape design?

Encounters with reality – creating a shared, playable public realm »

An interview with Liz Kessler, former Urban Designer with EC1 New Deal for Communities (NDC).

"People talk a lot about ‘home zone’s and about making streets for play, but for me, the top priority is making all estates home zones so that all areas in estates become safe."
 

 
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