From the moment we are born we are investigating, scrutinising the universe until we place our desire on some element, substance, point. That which will become our precious stone. In childhood we are born investigators. Everything arouses our curiosity, our astonishment. And we go on cutting out the world, seduced by certain sides of those precious stones that appear along the way.
Time to play is the best time to get to know the research, creations and training linked to play, installations and works for the early years as well as for the people who accompany children.
Play as a methodological principle consists in creating the space for its development, its observation and its accompaniment. In our workshops and stage proposals we find ourselves in a continuous laboratory. We say: Open the game.
‘I want time but not rushed time Time to play is the best.
Please, give it to me loose and not caged inside an alarm clock’ Marcha de Osías (Fragment) María Elena Walsh
Bhima Shanga’ Municipal Early Childhood Resource Centre in Rivas Vaciamadrid where we rethink the spaces of play. We investigated barter networks and held meetings with recreation mediators. Thus, in our 20 years of experience, we have collaborated with national plans in Spain, Mexico and Argentina. In conferences and congresses where we have presented our work; in the publication of articles and books, generating synergies that involve us with others in the reflection of new practices.
