Play Day: Ein kostenloser Pop-Up-Spielort im Gropius Bau

In the organizer's words:

Playing, creating, laughing, screaming - and all that in an exhibition building? The Gropius Bau invites all children aged 2 and over to do just that. For one day, Suzanna Law from Pop-Up Adventure Play will transform the Resonanzraum into a free play area where more is allowed than forbidden.

A pop-up play area for children is opening in the Resonanzraum at the Gropius Bau: for one day, the rules that normally apply in places where art can be experienced will be suspended. Inspired by adventure playgrounds and accompanied by trained playworkers - educators with a focus on free play - children can give free rein to their imagination and creativity here. "Loose parts" such as cardboard boxes, fabrics, tubes and paper are available to be (re)used and recombined in the most diverse and sometimes unexpected ways.

To capture the atmosphere of the Play Day , photographs will be taken during the event. Accompanying persons will be asked to give their consent in advance.

The Play Day is a foretaste of the permanent venue, which will be designed by Kerstin Brätsch, the current artist in residence at the Gropius Bau. From September, the entire west wing on the first floor will be given over entirely to children - a pilot project that will grow in the Gropius Bau over the next few years and also extend to the outside space.

Children can only take part in Play Day if accompanied by an adult. On site, the playworkers promote an environment in which children determine their own play by following their own instincts, ideas and interests and acting in their own way and for their own reasons.

Pop-Up Adventure Play was founded in 2010 with the intention of developing a holistic, low-cost and community-based approach to promoting children's free play. The pop-up events are inclusive and raise awareness of the value and social potential of play in public spaces. Pop-Up Adventure Play collaborates with a variety of stakeholders in children's lives, including city parks and recreation teams, art gallery and museum staff, family support organizations and health specialists, as well as parents and children themselves, to enhance play opportunities for children throughout their lives.

Pop-Up Adventure Play has launched the Playworker Development Course, providing introductory training in more than 25 countries. The team has toured the US (2014), Australia (2015) and around the world (2015) and published The New American Adventure Playground Movement How Communities Across the USA are Returning Risk and Freedom to Childhood (2015) and co-organized the International Playwork Campference (2017, 2019 and 2024).

Price information:

Free tickets (for one child and accompanying person) will be available shortly.