The Dolfijn Schoolyard in Haarlem is not only a schoolyard on its own. It serves as a place that children and the neighborhood can use after school times, during the week, and on weekends. This community / schoolyard consisted had only 7% of greens of the total area! Huge flooded areas, extremely hot summers, and a lack of play diversity were some of the problems. This schoolyard needed climate adaptive childfriendly adaptiation!
Our process – including climate lessons, co-design, co-construction – has delivered engaged children, a design which tackled several climate issues, and pleases both the schoolchildren and the community memebers: a green community play area / schoolyard, cooler in summer, no more floods & more diverse, inclusive and educative green play areas. The children are co-maintaining the schoolyard with our Nature Heroes program.
More about the process in this article: Groen Kapitaal