Park and public space design
Reimagining The Teaching Garden at Toronto Botanical Garden
Reimagining The Teaching Garden at Toronto Botanical Garden
Reimagining The Teaching Garden at Toronto Botanical Garden
Excitement is growing at the Toronto Botanical Garden. In partnership with Evergreen, we’re reimagining the Teaching Garden and we’re putting children and families at the heart of the process. Stay tuned as this collaborative visioning process takes root.
Designing a Nature Based Park with ClearWater Farm
Reimagining The Teaching Garden at Toronto Botanical Garden
Reimagining The Teaching Garden at Toronto Botanical Garden
ClearWater Farm is developing a nature based playspace and children from Lakeside Public School are guiding the design, collaborating with Evergreen, Landscape Architect Mark Setter, and the ClearWater Team.
Rethinking a Toronto Playground
Reimagining The Teaching Garden at Toronto Botanical Garden
Engaging Children and Community in Designing a Ravine Park
Campers from Camp Gedi shared imaginative ideas for a new park design — from giant nests to tube slides and ziplines — during a design session led by Recreate Place and the City of Toronto.
Engaging Children and Community in Designing a Ravine Park
Engaging Children and Community in Designing a Ravine Park
Engaging Children and Community in Designing a Ravine Park
Students at Eastbourne Drive Public School participated in an exciting experience, sharing their visions for a new park design for Eastbourne Park, situated directly behind their school grounds.
Students Collaborate on a Park Design
Engaging Children and Community in Designing a Ravine Park
Students Collaborate on a Park Design
Learn how students worked with Recreate Place, Evergreen, Trophic Design and Diamond Kilmer Developments to provide input into the redevelopment of an abandoned quarry, and their voice to the design for a public park.
Pop Ups and Community Engagement
Engaging Children and Community in Designing a Ravine Park
Students Collaborate on a Park Design
Recreate Place supported The Riverside Business Improvement Association (BIA) in their spring community event, where we engaged children, youth, and their families in sharing their visions for Riverside Common Park.
School art projects
Young Changemakers: Koffler Arts & Recreate Place
Young Changemakers: Koffler Arts & Recreate Place
Young Changemakers: Koffler Arts & Recreate Place
Young Changemakers: Koffler Arts Studio Program is an arts based project building children’s confidence, emotional wellbeing and community connections. This three year program involved a team of collaborators, including artists, educators, evaluation specialists and volunteers.
Vibrant Shapes in an Elementary Schoolground
Young Changemakers: Koffler Arts & Recreate Place
Young Changemakers: Koffler Arts & Recreate Place
In collaboration with artist Roda Medhat, students designed a bold, vertical artwork that adds colour and vibrancy to their school ground. A space visited by thousands of families and community members.
Creating Bird Friendly Art with Children
Young Changemakers: Koffler Arts & Recreate Place
Creating Bird Friendly Art with Children
Bringing together art and science, supporting curriculum and local conservation efforts, we work with schools to raise awareness about birds in our communities, and design art projects to prevent deadly window collisions.
A Fence Flock Welcomes the Community
Library Cushions Designed with Students
Creating Bird Friendly Art with Children
This beautiful artistic creation was installed to spark joy and welcome everyone to their school. Students worked with artist Gosia Komorski, and were inspired by natural materials such as leaves, shells and feathers
Library Cushions Designed with Students
Library Cushions Designed with Students
Library Cushions Designed with Students
Students, artists Janet Hinkle and Safna Mohamed Sahileen, and community seamstresses designed and sewed beautiful cushions for their school library. They will be used by the whole school during library time.
Visual Storytelling with Students
Library Cushions Designed with Students
Library Cushions Designed with Students
Food brings people together - as does art! Grade 7 & 8 students and artist Leah Gold created a hand printed art book that will be used in their library and classrooms for years to come.
A Collaborative Garden Mosaic
A School Library Mural project
A Collaborative Garden Mosaic
Students created a vibrant installation of 140 garden mosaic tiles displayed right at the front of their school. Artist Elena Martoglio taught them to grout, cut tile pieces and work creatively together.
Roots and Rivers School Mural
A School Library Mural project
A Collaborative Garden Mosaic
Huron Street Junior Public School students collaborated with artist Gosia Komorksi to create a vibrant mural. Students were inspired by a hidden river and the rich community of plants and animals that surround them.
A School Library Mural project
A School Library Mural project
Nature Inspired Fence installation
Students at Annette Street and High Park Alternative School worked with artist Bareket Kezwer to create a school mural for their library, exploring the meaning of ‘community and connection’.
Nature Inspired Fence installation
Nature Inspired Fence installation
Nature Inspired Fence installation
Inspired by nature in their school grounds, students created beautiful prints with artist Leah Gold, which were transferred onto wooden fence art, resulting in a vibrant array of colours and shapes.
Tree Cage Weaving Project
Nature Inspired Fence installation
Tree Cage Weaving Project
Students collaborated with artist Roda Medhat to explore storytelling through textiles, weaving patterns onto tree cages to transform their schoolyard and highlight their connection to nature and the trees.
Bird Friendly Window Art
Nature Inspired Fence installation
Tree Cage Weaving Project
Students explored local bird species, migration patterns and how to prevent window collisions. With artist Janet Hinkle, they created a series of window art installations to protect birds and raise awareness.
Garden Tiles for a School Courtyard
A Colourful Mural on a Storage Container
Garden Tiles for a School Courtyard
Students co-designed a collection of plaster garden stones with D+S Projects. They imprinted objects that sparked joyful memories into clay molds, then creating small tiles which were laid together in the school courtyard.
Welcoming Fence Art
A Colourful Mural on a Storage Container
Garden Tiles for a School Courtyard
In celebration of diversity and inclusion at Inglewood PS, students in Grade 5 and 6 worked with artist Leah Gold to co-design this art installation welcoming everyone who visits their school.
A Colourful Mural on a Storage Container
A Colourful Mural on a Storage Container
A Colourful Mural on a Storage Container
“I am so proud of this group of girls and what we have accomplished together!” shared a student from the Young Women on the Move program. Participants helped create a vibrant mural in collaboration with artist Wandy Cheng.
A School Mural to Celebrate Nature
A Window Installation to transform a Courtyard Walkway
A Colourful Mural on a Storage Container
“I feel like I contributed to something that really matters,” shared a grade 6 student at Howard Junior Public School with artist Gosia Komorski while painting a nature themed mural for their school.
Students Design Murals for their Washrooms
A Window Installation to transform a Courtyard Walkway
A Window Installation to transform a Courtyard Walkway
Students at Annette Public School and High Park Alternative School partnered with artist Gosia Komorski and the Recreate Place team to create a mural that supports inclusion, belonging and a safe space for all.
A Window Installation to transform a Courtyard Walkway
A Window Installation to transform a Courtyard Walkway
A Window Installation to transform a Courtyard Walkway
Students collaborated with D & S Projects, to explore our connections to the natural environment. The sessions led to a beautiful window piece reflecting students’ learnings about light, silhouette, colour and composition.
Building Bird Habitat on School Grounds
Building Bird Habitat on School Grounds
Building Bird Habitat on School Grounds
Grade 7 & 8’s at High Park Alternative school took part in an arts based project that addressed climate resiliency and nature on school grounds using a practical and hands-on approach.
Students say “Hello” to Everyone!
Building Bird Habitat on School Grounds
Building Bird Habitat on School Grounds
Artist Kseniya Tsoy worked with students to create an engaging art installation for their front entrance to their school. Their artwork welcomed families to the school in a playful, child friendly way.
Textiles and Rugs in a School Library
Building Bird Habitat on School Grounds
Textiles and Rugs in a School Library
Students worked with Artist Roda Medhat to weave, paint and collage their way to the creation of a beautiful hanging textile installation in their school library - seen by close to 1500 students every year!
Children and Public Art
Textiles and Rugs in a School Library
Supported by Artworx TO and Artist Wandy Cheng, students created a beautiful fence installation to enliven the day of passersby, and those in the hospital right across the street.
Wheat Pasting - Quick and Temporary Transformations
Children were eager to transform their school ground by showcasing vibrant colours, the importance of play, and what they love about nature! Artist Wandy Cheng helped transform their ideas into a playful, collaborative installation.
Surface Murals and Fence Art, 2022
What does public art in your community look like? Students explored this question with Artists Christine Dewancker and Katie Strang from D+S Projects, helping make the outdoor playspace for the pre-schoolers wonderful.
Artworx TO: A Child’s Vision of Public Art
Student-led Videos on Climate Change Adaptation and Green Jobs
Artworx TO: A Child’s Vision of Public Art
Recreate Place worked with elementary schools (Edgewood, Pierre Laporte and West Glen) and artists in an immersive experience where the children learned about the possibilities and benefits of bringing public art into their schools.
Exploring Human Movement and Inclusion
Student-led Videos on Climate Change Adaptation and Green Jobs
Artworx TO: A Child’s Vision of Public Art
In collaboration with the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF), Recreate Place co-designed a series of lessons for the secondary teaching guide, Common Threads: Creating Safe Harbour and Evolving Communities.
Student-led Videos on Climate Change Adaptation and Green Jobs
Student-led Videos on Climate Change Adaptation and Green Jobs
Student-led Videos on Climate Change Adaptation and Green Jobs
Check out students from across Canada interviewing climate change experts, discussing exciting and important green jobs, from firefighting to tourism, planning, engineering, traditional knowledge and more.