Arplaytecture is a dynamic platform to inspire architects, designers, and creative professionals. By merging the power of play and playfulness with the precision of architecture and design, always keeping the user in mind, Arplaytecture helps you break free from creative blocks, reduce stress and uncertainty, and unlock innovative thinking through playful exploration. The benefits: improved work and enhanced creativity.

Arplaytecture promotes out-of-the-box solutions and reflection, driving bold, imaginative, human-centred results in architecture and design. Whether an architect or a designer, the platform invites you to join the “creative magic circle” to collaborate in co-creation processes, harnessing creativity for more inclusive, inventive solutions.

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"To play is to be in the world. Playing is a form of understanding what surrounds and who we are."
Miguel Sicart, "Play Matters"
"The pleasure of play is understandable. The productivity of play is harder to explain."
Steven Johnson, "Wonderland. How Play Made the Modern World"
"We want our modern world to be [...] full of the expressive capacities of play. But we also want them to be effective [...] We want playfulness - the capacity to use play outside the context of play."
Miguel Sicart, "Play Matters"
"Without play, there is no experimentation [...] without experimentation, there is no 'quest for answers' "
Paul Rand, quoted by Steven Heller in "Paul Rand: The Play Principle"
"L'homme n'est pas vraiment sérieux que lorsqu'il joue"
Le Corbusier, quoted by Jean-Jacques Duval in "Le Corbusier, l'écorce et la fleur"
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the deck to include the user in the creative process

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Toolkit for architecture and user-centered design showcasing the integration of play in the creative process, encouraging innovative and human-focused design solutions.

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Playful tools

Would you like to improve your creative process, dynamise and enrich your teamwork, or improve your students' learning? I can design tools and methods to guide you during the divergent and convergent phases of the process.

Design Thinking for Students and Professionals

Would you like to enrich your human-centred approach or benefit from Design Thinking principles? I can design and facilitate workshops for students and professionals.

Co-creation Workshops

Do you need to develop co-creation activities? I can design and facilitate them, introducing tailored tools that help you and non-designers participants stimulate the creativity and find a common language.

Design Research

Are you looking for relevant insights to develop user-friendly design-, architectural- and urban projects? I can conduct human-centred design research, applying design thinking tools and methods.

Playful Design

Are you interested in developing meaningful, open-ended products, spaces or objects for the users? I can help you from A to Z (design research, prototyping, testing, production).

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