Go ahead and do it!

Children have an adventurous relationship with street furniture: they’re irresistible opportunities for learning how to balance, walk, fall and get up, grab, climb, jump, slide.

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Children interpret street furniture and architecture with the intelligence of their bodies and a desire to know.

Taking time to experience these encounters means giving children the right to inhabit the city and adults taking the responsibility conceptualize a city with no places “for children” but where all places belong “to children.” 

Children will soon learn the rules that conventionalize the gestures, postures and timing of adult life: in the meantime, let us not forget to learn from them to take time, now and then, to accept the invitation to dance that a bench, a sculpture or a skateboard ramp offers.

The explosive vitality of children seems to invite us to continue to take a playful and creative approach to everyday life.