Design Assistance
NLI provides design assistance, design review, and professional development resources to private and public institutions that offer formal and nonformal education and cultural services to children. NLI works with community partners, including landscape architects, to create model, research-based, ecologically viable outdoor settings. NLI believes that effective design must be a community-based process that engages all relevant stakeholders in developing a project mission, vision, and design objectives to support consensus-based design solutions.
Projects
Projects are typically concentrated, short-duration efforts that focus on specific design issues or involve a single aspect of a program (e.g., design assistance, evaluation, professional development or policy initiative).
“The kids love talking about the garden, they are excited about it and the garden extends their science and nature learning.”
Sterling Montessori Academy and Charter School
Play Chastain
OLE at Glencoe Mill Village
The Catawba Nation iswa Early Learning Center
The Nature PlayScape at Cincinnati Nature Center
Kids Together Playground
Anne Springs Close Greenway (ASCG)
Greenspring Montessori School
Verner Center for Early Learning
Ross Park Playful Learning Forest
Kids in the Woods at Hoffler Creek Wildlife Preserve
Conestee Nature Preserve: Nature Playscape
North Carolina Transportation Museum
Moore Montessori Community School (MMCS) teacher workshop
Rash Field Park
St. Johns Lutheran Church Child Development Center
kidZone Post Occupancy Evaluation
My Place by The Bay: Prepared Environments for Early Science Learning
Blanchie Carter Discovery Park
Teardrop Park (North)
Bright Horizons Child Development Center at Research Triangle Park
Children’s Garden, North Carolina Botanical Garden
The Montessori School of Winston-Salem, NC
Greensboro Children’s Museum Edible Schoolyard
Wellesley College Child Study Center
Field of Dreams
Clairmont Campus, Clifton School
First Baptist Kindergarten Outdoor Environment
The Elizabeth Ann Clune Montessori School of Ithaca
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI) OLE Initiative
Walnut Creek Wetland Center
Montessori Community School, Durham, NC
Natural Play and Learning Area Guidelines Project
First Environments Early Learning Center
Down East Discovery Play and Learning Park in Rocky Mount, NC
