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Ever wondered how to cultivate municipal imagination in your town centre? How might we support people to reimagine how a public space works, who can use it and what happens there? How do our town centres work from a viewing height of 95cm (average height of a 3 year old)? How can we measure the joy of play and the ripple effect benefits for others who don't have young children? We've been on a learning journey at Street Space over the last few months, (inspired by our in house toddler 😂) hosting a huddle of #collectiveimagination peers focussed on reimagining town centres (more on this here: https://lnkd.in/dsgnApjY) which then led to our own seed funding from the Collective Imagination Practice to explore & test how we might put toddlers at the heart of our town centres through activation of under-used, pedestrianised space in our town. We wanted to explore what would happen if we hacked and edited our existing public realm to see how we could centre little one's play, learning & curiosity..! Here's some reflections on what we did and what we learnt: https://lnkd.in/dKeSkf8G #publicspace #play #activation #childfriendly #95cm #towncentres #publicrealm #collectiveimagination