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Play Attention
Play Attention is the podcast from Timberplay exploring how play shapes our world — from childhood development and urban design to health, creativity and community.
Hosted by independent play consultant, Beth Cooper, each episode invites thinkers, designers and changemakers to share stories and ideas that champion the right to play, and challenge us all to build more playful spaces, cities and lives.
Podcasting since 2025 • 5 episodes
Play Attention
Latest Episodes
"We Call Ourselves Childhood Conservationists"
In this episode of Play Attention, we sit down with someone we’ve admired for many years - Ash Perrin, co-founder and CEO of the Flying Seagull Project.Timberplay and the Flying Seagulls have crossed paths time and time a...
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Why Flattening Abstraction Flattens Play
In this episode of Play Attention, Beth Cooper speaks with designer, educator and author Cas Holman about her new book, Playful, and why reclaiming free play matters just as much for adults as it does for children.At th...
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Play Equipment: The Most Underrated Urban Infrastructure
In this episode of Play Attention, Beth Cooper is joined by Anamaria Castillo, Landscape Strategies Director at KALQ Studio, who argues that if landscape architects want to design for play, they need far more in-depth training to do it well.
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Legitimising Play as the Outcome
Leeds is quietly doing something radical: treating play as an essential outcome in its own right.In this episode of Play Attention, host Beth Cooper is joined by Emma Bearman, Founder of Playful Anywhere, ...
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Building a Play Strategy for England with Eugene Minogue
England is closer than it has been in years to a new national play strategy. In this debut episode of The Play Attention Podcast, host Beth Cooper sits down with Eugene Minogue, Executive Director of Play England, to explor...
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