Loop d’ Loop is a unique DIY kit designed for British-born young people attending the New Choice for Youth Centre in East London.  Each assembly of the kit results in a customised inflatable seating unit that can twist and fit together with other seats to reveal a variety 

of layout possibilities.

This playful collaboration offers a way for the youth to explore the opportunities of their community center as a place for informal gatherings, creative expression and new imaginative potential. 

Exploring the relations of body, space and time, the NCY youth participated in four two-hour design workshops, where they engaged in brainstorming exercises, theatre activities, reflections and model-making. They experimented in mapping the space, sought to understand existing space versus imagined space, researched performance spaces and gained knowledge of stories of space and the story matrix. By arranging and attaching the inflatable modules to create different layouts in the space, they created their own stories.

The result of the project was the expression, by fifteen young people, of an understanding of tolerance, collaboration and co-creation, through developing a modular seating system based on their new ideas of space, place and people.