Student project

Playful Grounds: Co-creating Futures

Designer
Taïs Holzhauer
Education
Master
Subject area
Communication Design
Focus area
Design for Play
Year
2026
Collaboration partners
ATD Quart Monde - Marseille, FR
Ludothèque Simone de Beauvoir - Marseille, FR
Background
A social design research project investigating narratives of home through co-creative play with children.

Playful Grounds: Co-creating Futures

Playful Grounds: Co-creative Futures is a critical design research project exploring how play shapes children’s ideas of home. Through co-creative play, it invites children to reclaim agency over domestic narratives. Drawing on intersectional, queer, and feminist theory, the project challenges dominant ideas of home, family, and community and frames play as a tool for social change.