1. Developing Creative Hands-on Exhibitions for children – and Why
Creating hands-on environments:
You can do it too
Anna Salaman
Playeum

2. PLAYEUM
Playeum is an independent charity which champions children through play and creativity.
Founders: Sumitra Pasupathy and Jennifer Loh

3. Playeum...
Develops innovative and high-quality play spaces, programmes and products, designed to encourage open-ended and self- directed learning;
Runs professional development sessions for parents, educators and artists to transform mindsets and behavior;
Systematically serves the disadvantaged and marginalized children in our society, such as The School Readiness Programme for children from low-income households, social- emotional wellbeing programmes, and building creative public sector/private sector partnerships.

4. The Centre’s pedagogy:
Open-ended
Self-directed
Child-led
Our underlying philosophy:
Children are creative and competent

5. 120,000 children & families engaged 160 innovative programmes created
TRACK RECORD SINCE 2009
Through collaborations with other museums, public institutions and creative practitioners…
120,000 children & families engaged
160 innovative programmes created
20% of which serve underprivileged children
1,500 stakeholders trained
9* international awards
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*Find out more about our achievements in this video
Playeum | partnership

6. our 9 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
Prize Winner of the British Council ELEVATE Startwell Challenge 2015
Pacesetter in the Re-Imagine Learning Challenge by Lego Foundation 2014
Winner of the Ben & Jerry’s “Join Our Core” Fan Choice Award 2014
Honourable Mention in UNICEF’s Inclusive Play Space Design Ideas Competition
5 awards from the UK Campaign for Drawing 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014
Playeum | partnership

7. The Children’s Centre for Creativity
Opened 19 Sept 2015 at Gillman Barracks for children aged 1 to 12

8. Changing themes provide:
The environment
The provocations (tools and resources)
Facilitation
Creative direction
An interdisciplinary programme

9. The Art of Speed Hideaways – Creating With Nature 19 September 2015 -
3 April 2016
Hideaways – Creating With Nature
16 April 2016 – 30 October 2016

10. A World Full of Stories Making It Home
Dreaming Rooms, Making Spaces, Creating Places
16 May – 29 October 2017
15 November 2016 –
30 April 2017

11. Our installations – simple, applicable concepts

12. Shadowplay by Isabelle Desjeux

13. children’s imaginations
Feeds
children’s imaginations
Promotes creative literacy
Encourages social and emotional development
Celebrates speech, language and drama
Unrivalled opportunities for story-building and role-play

14. Story Cubes and Book Corner

15. A Film Full of Stories

16. Interplay by Richard Kearns

17. Open-ended dress-up

18. Look and Feel Cave

19. Listen and Speak Cave

20. The Story Raft

21. Hoisting the flag on the Story Raft

22. Marine activities Sand Play & Glass Art

23. Puppetry in the Play Making Space

24. The Story Booth and Post us a Story

25. Some questions for you:
Can your setting accommodate a hands-on activity or installation?
Is there a particular theme you want, or need to respond to? What is it?
How can you design the activity to be open-ended, so that each students has a valid, explorative experience, regardless of their ability level?
What resources are required to enable this?
What else is needed to make this happen?

26. Feedback from discussions
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27. Thank you www.playeum.com