The playground promotes interaction
between the disabled kids and the
children living in the neighbourhood.
Since disability is sometimes poorly
understood, a strong stigma is attached to
children who appear to be ‘different’
regular slide and a double steering wheel in the cabin, the former ambulance has become the kid’s favourite.
Completely handicap accessible, the playground also promotes interaction between the disabled kids and
the children living in the neighbourhood. Since disability is sometimes poorly understood, a strong stigma is
attached to children who appear to be ‘different.’ This inventive new clubhouse for children was designed to
break down social barriers and nurture tolerance.
Beside the playground equipment, Pim and Luc also thought about improvements in the working system. Since
the employees used to work on ‘trial and error’, mistakes led directly to waste of expensive and scarce materials.
To reduce the number of errors, the designers taught the staff of Sakaramenta to work with technical drawings
and 3D software, and to make sure that the production would not stop on the moment the collaboration ended,
moulds and 1:1 drawings were provided. At this moment in time the employees of Sakaramenta are still
producing playground articles and serving a wide group of people in Malawi. AD
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