Learning by playing

Nylah
Prototyper, Boston Public Art Triennial’s Youth and Family Activity Guide

Our goal when designing the youth and family activity guide for Boston Public Art Triennial was to create ways for youth to play like a public artist by exploring, connecting and making. The final illustrated guide offers young people and their families accessible information about the Triennial artworks, space to reflect and draw, and prompts to imagine their own public art.

Nylah helped us take play seriously, as a prototyper who tested and improved our concepts with us. Nylah jumped in with enthusiasm, focus, and a critical eye. Watching her at work helped us appreciate how young people are willing to work hard on a fun task, the ways they integrate new ideas in real time, and how they can create with such confidence in themselves and their visions.