Participatory retrofitting of school playgrounds: Collaboration between children and university students to develop a vision

The method provides useful considerations on the value offered by collaborative projects between universities and elementary schools. Generally, the case study shows the transferability of the method offering a significant support to playworkers to develop satisfactory, child-friendly design choices. Observing the Italian children's point of view, the paper shows that they identify the school playground with green spaces and traditional play setting, at the same time, they ask for multifunctional school playgrounds that allow for considering school's open spaces as extensions of the classroom.