Ranti Ekaputri
Playground Architect & Child Culture Designer
Ranti is a multidisciplinary designer who creates playful environments and hands-on experiences.
With a background in architecture, child culture design, and a passion in performance art, Ranti explores the intersection of movement, storytelling, and spatial design. Through hands-on workshops, she engages children in playful making, co-creating and guiding them to transform ideas into tangible objects and immersive experiences. Weaving storytelling through different media to spark imagination and exploration.
Project
Tires Conquering
DIY Outdoor Play Equipment BY and FOR Children
Tires Conquering was a project located in Hjällbo, Gothenburg, that aims to trigger collective play and bring children together. The project utilises old car tires that were modified into various play elements with open-ended quality, along with other simple materials such as wooden plank and rope. The ambiguous elements opened possibilities for children to devise play in any way.
As a result, Tires Conquering was able to exhibit diverse play interaction that happened between the children and the modified car tires. A group of children worked together to create an obstacle course that they tested right away. In different occasion, some children formed a makeshift structures from the same car tires and play in a different manner.
Project
LIKU
Building Through Motion
This project explored the method of designing that is born through children’s performative body movements while playing. It is an attempt to combine child culture design with elements of bodily movements found in the field of performance art.
The project started by investigating myriad of possibilities children’s body could both influence and be influenced by objects within an indoor space. It continued to a design exploration to create an object that could accommodate such movements and in return, allowed children to perform said movements while interacting with it.
A play object is the outcome of this project, Liku, and Indonesian adjective word that means meander and twisted is the name of this project, representing the quality of the play object. LIKU creates the full-bodied action capacity of children’s play while also promoting free play that let children decide how they want to play. The play object gives children the agency to decide the kind of active play they want to do.
Workshop
Mask Making
Papier-Mâché with Recycled Materials
A children's workshop project in collaboration with Meeting Plays—a community art hub in Biskopsgården, Gothenburg. This workshop guided children to create masks from papier-mâché, with the help of a mold. They painted and decorated the masks using paints and various recycled materials from paper, tissue rolls to seashells.
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