The Adventure Playground: Architectures of Contemporary Play is a series of exploratory talks and propositions that investigates processes of play and imagination and their role in built environments and the designed spaces of playgrounds in Britain. It brings forward the architectural and political history of playgrounds as dedicated spaces for children across contemporary cities and centres on the idea of ‘creating worlds’.
Aberrant Architecture is a multi-award winning collaborative studio of designers, makers and thinkers. Their projects, whether interactive architecture, interiors, public art, exhibitions or installations, offer new and unexpected ways of experiencing everyday life. By placing storytelling and research at the heart of their practice, they produce spatial experiences that are both meaningful and beautiful.Taking a participatory approach to their work, they build close relationships with the communities in which they operate to place peoples’ needs at the centre of the problems they address and the opportunities they create. Aberrant Architecture have exhibited at a number of international architecture exhibitions, and their work has been collected by museums across the world. They also held the first-ever architecture residency at the V&A. Founded by David Chambers and Kevin Haley in 2010, the Aberrant Architecture studio is based in south London.