Using play to enhance the learning environment for children’s development

  • Community: Dinajpur Primary School, Bangladesh

  • Client: JAAGO Foundation

JAAGO Foundation is revolutionising education in Bangladesh, through the use of technology. Their online learning model brings high quality teaching to remote and underserved areas of the country. We are working with one of their schools to design and construct a new playspace, and examine the impact this has on education.

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Sundarban village, Bangladesh

Sundarban village, Bangladesh


This is Ridoy, he's a kindergarten pupil at JAAGO and dreams of being a doctor. Read more.


... every child has the right to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts.
— Article 31 / The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Early prototypes: Storytelling circle / enclosure / balance beam / kitchen garden

Storytelling
Roleplaying tea shop
Balancing
Raised planting bed