Lets Play! No matter what your age is you are welcome to design yourown environment

Proto and Finnish Association of Design Learning with their partners organise design workshops for all ages through spring 2026. The exciting outcomes are on display in Pikisaari in the summer, and come autumn a real play environment will develop.

Play belongs to all of us and we are all allowed to participate in designing our living environment. Proto – Designers of Northern Finland and Finnish Association of Design Learning will train Design Ambassadors in the autumn 2025. Design workshops for people of all ages will be organised in Oulu region through the spring months of 2026.

Design has a great advantage being a language but a language where words are not always necessary, encouraging interaction and dialogue through drawing and crafting.

Outcomes of the workshops will be on display in an exhibition in Pikisaari — and as visitor you are invited to assess and to develop designs further. We’ll discuss play and the outcomes also in an international event to give a real push for realisation of a hopefully radically new play environment.

Lets Play then!

In collaboration with Proto
Finnish Association of Design Learning, Oulu Urban and Environmental Services,
Oulu Culture Centre for Children and Youth, Steam in Oulu, Oulu-opisto and Konstrundan.

 

Team

Proto—Designers of Northern Finland: Ami Avéllan, Hanna Savolainen, Päivi Tahkokallio
Finnish Association of Design Learning: Anna Kokki, Siri Lumme, Paula Susitaival, Mari Savio

 

 Interested in collaboration — Contact

Päivi Tahkokallio, Proto2026 Programme, Programme Director, paivi@tahkokallio.fi
Mari Savio, Finnish Association of Design Learning, suomu@muotoilukasvatus.info