Look Up Looking Down at OpenFest 2019 invited families to join the Play Build Play team on an extra special sensory tour of the Barbican Centre.
This play activity for families ran periodically throughout the festival day, with participants first creating themselves a made-to-measure gold foam mat, before then setting out into the urban wonderland that is the Barbican. High-walks and gardens and terraces, foyers, mezzanines and stairwells; at various locations participants were invited to place their mats on the ground, lie down and look up and look down, seeing new distant and close up views. Locations were carefully chosen to relate to archival material, exploring the unique materials, shapes and stories that make the Barbican so special.
This workshop facilitates participants young and old to take ownership of public spaces, encouraging them to explore the built environment in new, playful and thoughtful ways. Lying down also offers a great opportunity to stop, look and listen to the busy world around us in a calm and meditative way, not something we always get to do very often!
This play activity for families ran periodically throughout the festival day, with participants first creating themselves a made-to-measure gold foam mat, before then setting out into the urban wonderland that is the Barbican. High-walks and gardens and terraces, foyers, mezzanines and stairwells; at various locations participants were invited to place their mats on the ground, lie down and look up and look down, seeing new distant and close up views. Locations were carefully chosen to relate to archival material, exploring the unique materials, shapes and stories that make the Barbican so special.
This workshop facilitates participants young and old to take ownership of public spaces, encouraging them to explore the built environment in new, playful and thoughtful ways. Lying down also offers a great opportunity to stop, look and listen to the busy world around us in a calm and meditative way, not something we always get to do very often!
