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The Playful Team

TU Delft | Faculty of Architecture and the Built EnvironmentDepartment of Urbanism | Section of Landscape Architecture Docent-Project leader | Laura Cipriani  Students | Janaina C.M. Schmittgens | Xuejing He | Jiaming Huang | Sara van Keulen | Olivia Lensen | Fenne Manshande | Melissa Meertens | Qianlin Xu | Yuhang Zhai   
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Prizes

International Prize2025 Tulane Prize for Climate Change The syllabus of the Comenius Course Climate Change as a Game has received the Honorable Achievement for Climate Change Curriculum in Community Engaged Design of the 2025 Tulane Prize for Climate Change, awarded by the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism at
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Conferences

TU Delft | Delft | The Netherlands International Seminar Date | 22.04.2024 Organizer | Laura Cipriani Speakers | Laura Cipriani |  Maguelonne Dejeant-Pons | Mathieu Gielen | Alison Goss | Roberto Pasini | Valerio Perna | Belinda Tato See the Program University of Padua | Historic Garden Group of Padua | Padua | Italy International
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Publications and Media

BookPlayful Pedagogies: Climate Change as a Game The book Playful Pedagogies has been published! The free online version will be released in the following months by TU Delft Open Publishing.   Cipriani, L. (2025) Playful Pedagogies: Climate Change as a Game. Siracusa/Delft, LetteraVentidue/TU Delft Open Publishing. https://letteraventidue.com/en/books/playful-pedagogies-cipriani?srsltid=AfmBOor6L71ummYuUjrfiq44fPk7epIf5T_0xWeVTB7jNyZ1YH14A-Og   About
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The Golden Spiral of Evolution Exhibition

The Golden Spiral of Evolution2025 Landscape Exhibition This installation, called The Golden Spiral of Evolution, marks the end of the Comenius project. Located in the rural landscape of Delft, the piece takes the form of a Corten spiral—a living representation of the Fibonacci sequence, with its curves echoing patterns
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(Co)Creating the Landscape

The Third Outdoor Workshop and InstallationWhispering Wilderness During the (Co)Creation phase, students and teachers, inspired by the second workshop with children, developed several installation designs through collaborative co-design sessions. Ultimately, they collectively selected one final installation to prototype and construct for the concluding event. This on-site installation day marks
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Playful Workshop 2

The Second Indoor Workshop The Dot Games and the Toolkits The second workshop aimed to inspire children’s creativity in design. One of the games was ‘The Red Dot on the Climate Crisis’ and ‘The Green Dot of Climate Hopes.’ The children had to draw a negative consequence associated with the
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(Co)Designing the Landscape

The Landscape Vision(Co)Designing with the Farmer The second phase involved co-designing a future landscape plan with the landowner of this area. How will climate change affect this agricultural region and its plants and animals? What actions can we plan for the short and long term? The Biodiversity Vision  From
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Playful Workshop 1

The First Outdoor WorkshopBecoming Animal, Vegetation, Soil and Water The Comenius course addressed climate change by engaging children with issues related to vegetation, soil, and water. Our first step was to explore, play, and read the landscape of Delftse Hout. We experienced the landscape on-site with nearly thirty kids,
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Exploring the Landscape

The Site InvestigationStudying Soil, Water, and Biodiversity Climate change covers a broad array of concepts, including its causes and effects. In this design course, students examined the ‘soil’ and ‘water’ cycles to address climate change issues from both human and non-human viewpoints, considering animals, soil, bacteria, plants, and more.
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