"Playfully Through Vienna": Streets Become a Playground Again

As in the last two years, the project "Playfully through Vienna" will take place again in 2025. The aim is to actively promote street play culture in the city's streets – children and teenagers reclaim public space and use it as a free space for their ideas and purposes.

Project "Playfully through Vienna" revitalizes streets in the districts

In cooperation with the districts, a location in the district was determined, which becomes a play street on an afternoon in the months of May and June. The events are organized by the open youth work associations, JUVIVO and the WFB - Wiener Familienbund. They are supported by the district councils of the participating districts.

The play offerings include among others parachutes, juggling materials, street chalk, and giant soap bubbles. In some districts, there are also the regular, well-known, and already established play streets of the local youth work associations.

This year 18 play streets in Vienna

All dates for the 18 play streets in the year 2025 are available at https://www.juvivo.at/projekte-und-schwerpunkte/wiener-spielstrasse/spielerisch-durch-wien/

The upcoming dates in May are:

Additionally, on September 10th in the 1st district at Schottenring 16 (side road in front of the "Alte Börse"), the big play street festival will take place from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM to conclude the project. In case of bad weather, the play street festival will be postponed to September 17th.

Almost 2,800 Participants Last Year

A total of 2,779 people participated in the play streets last year, with well over half of them being children and teenagers. The play streets were particularly popular among children up to 9 years old with 51 percent and teenagers with 14 percent of all participants. There were also numerous contacts with adults and seniors – guardians, grandparents as well as local residents – to convince them of the idea of play streets on site. The 18 play streets in 2024 took place from May to September in the districts 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 21st.

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