A day to play and learn the way
Saturplays with ideas@play are intensive challenges filled with fun, creativity and a chance to connect with your friends, family and community.
Saturplays
Fun for everyone
From 10am – 3pm we host multiple activities and a 1hr outdoor game where we learn to design for good. We explore creative techniques, make empathy maps and learn how to use free tools to design. We create prototypes, develop social media cause marketing, and explore what it means to use our superpowers of play.
all ages – Come along Grandma
Open to all ages. We highly recommend you bring Grandma.
BYO lunch, drinks and a plate of snacks to share. Starting soon.
Participate in Melbourne or virtually via Livestream and WizIQ.
Venue: TBA (Melbourne)
Dates: TBA
Time: 10am-3pm
Cost: Adults $45.00 and Under 16 $25.00. Under 2 Free
please register your interest
What is ideas@play?
ideas@play is where play and design education meets social change. We’re inspiring tomorrow’s change agents and empowering them with the skills and tools to effect positive change in their communities. It all starts by re inventing play and engaging the creative, physical, and technical skills that have been identified as necessary to both adapt and thrive in our complex and ever changing world. We also believe in diverse and dynamic groups. We see great benefit in connecting young people with leaders in their fields, experts and those in the wise age, the third age of life. Social inclusion, community building and sharing knowledge are a big parts of what we do.
Inspired by people such as Sir Ken Robinson, Laura Seargeant Richardson, Chris Lehmann andJane McGonigal, we’re encouraging young Australians to embrace the role of designer, use the design tools they already love to use online and off and use social media to deliver the message, create and connect with communities. We are also following the four pillars of play, open environments, flexible tools, modifiable rules and superpowers.
These challenges show that young people can play and produce in the big world now and not have to wait to be graduates or experts.
The Design thinking curriculum we use to guide all our challenges is world class, tried and tested and comes from the K12 project by d.school at Stanford in the USA.
