Our Projects
Town Centre First
Love Our Laneways
Hubspot Collaborations
Love Our Laneways
Portlaoise Active Travel Zone
Thrive Grant Application
Love Our Laneways
‘Love our Laneways’ is a pilot project established by A Playful City, in partnership with Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council (DLRCC).
The focus of the first pilot is Pearse Drive Laneway (known locally as “the Gaps”) in Sallynoggin. A Playful City engaged and partnered with the local community and local stakeholders to co-create a collective community vision for The Gaps.
The project provided a model for the adaptation and promotion of a bottom up approach to the development of undervalued spaces in DLRCC.
The process of this pilot showed how community-led, co-created changes to the public realm can positively impact the people and lives of the community.
Playful Streets
Playful Streets are a low cost, safe and easy way to turn a street into a play space, by limiting access to vehicles for a few hours and opening streets to play.
The Playful Streets campaign has been trialled nationally and internationally with local authorities of Fingal County Council and South Dublin County Council taking part in the scheme as part of their Community Departments.
Portlaoise Active Travel Zone
The purpose of this project was to promote active travel in the community of Portlaoise through co-creation workshops with local stakeholders. The culmination of this resulted in a series of recommendations for design interventions and trialling for the ‘Triogue Way’ - a a low carbon, active travel route going through the town of Portlaoise.
Town Centre First
(New Ross & Skibbereen)
A Playful City successfully collaborated with local authorities and multi-discipline design teams to understand how the towns of New Ross and Skibbereen can develop into the future with community insights at the heart of the plan.
Hubspot Collaborations
Since 2018, A Playful City and Hubspot have successfully collaborated with the communities of the North East Inner City. Through the means of workshops, events and urban interventions, we listen and learn from the local community to create and deliver fair and fun spaces together.
Thrive Grant Application Funding
THRIVE will provide local authorities with funding opportunities to renovate, refurbish and adapt vacant and derelict heritage buildings in their town centres. The Market House in Gorey has been identified by Wexford County Council as one of these derelict heritage buildings. A Playful City hosted workshops and a drop in event to understand the ideas and needs of the community of Gorey in order to gain insights and feedback on how the town thinks and feels towards a shared vision for the rejuvenation of the Market House.
