Creative Insights

María Elena Walsh transformed absurdity, wordplay and imagination into gateways towards new ways of seeing. Her songs and stories did more than entertain children: they legitimised their questions and invited them to alter the rules of possibility. Her creative legacy reminds us that imagining also means giving an impossible idea permission to keep growing.

This ByBa BAT continues the journey begun in Amsterdam and arrives in postwar London, where Lady Allen transformed bombed sites into adventure playgrounds. There, children did not only interpret space: they could build it, dismantle it and transform it. A reflection on play, ruins, open materials and creativity as reconstruction.

This ByBa BAT begins with a dirt hole in Buenos Aires and reaches Aldo van Eyck’s playgrounds in Amsterdam to ask how much a space really needs in order to awaken play. It proposes seeing the creative city not as the one offering more activities, but as the one leaving more possibilities open.

This ByBa BAT questions a common scene: asking young children not to color outside the lines before they have explored the stroke. From Creative Family, it frames early drawing as action, discovery and possibility. First comes exploring, mixing, crossing and leaving a trace; later comes learning precision, control and limits.

This second part of the ByBa BAT on space and creativity focuses on the invisible architecture of play: time, permission, waiting and adult words that open possibilities. Through the Theory of Loose Parts, it proposes imperfect play, the edge of boredom, small challenges and the 7-day rule as ways to support creativity.