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Exploring methodological approaches in a challenging environment: refugee children’s access to play in/around their refugee accommodations Being able to explore and play in quality open spaces is crucial for children, especially children with refugee backgrounds, since they provide children with the opportunity to practice and hone social, cognitive, emotional and physical skills. This presentation introduces systemic investigations of refugee children’s playspaces accessible possibilities in micro- (inside their accommodations) and meso-environments (around their accommodations), summarising from case and site studies in Berlin, Germany. The research has faced a few technical and social difficulties since it aimed to document comparable academic evidence of refugee children in transit periods from refugee facilities with temporary structures. It attempted to minimise accessibility and environmental measure gaps by linking refugee children’s environmental perceptions, spatial characteristics of refugee accommodation environments and the opportunities for their playing behaviours. However, limitations do exist. By broadly gathering qualitative and quantitative data, this research helps understand how refugee children perceived ‘the presentence of playspaces’ and ‘playspaces accessibility’ from architectural perspectives. _ This event is organised by the Space Syntax Laboratory, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Dr Kimon Krenz ([email protected])