Go ahead and do it!
What do children do when they are the ones choosing where to go, when and how to linger?
Arcobaleno municipal Infant-toddler Centre: children from 1 to 2 years old
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.
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.