Light Play Art is a living, immersive experience conceived by Gil Castro and brought to life by the creative teams at INTUS and InSpace, in collaboration with Waldorf community, Maestro Sandy, and Maestra Nina.
Inspired by the vision of Rudolf Steiner, this collective gesture invites the child into a space where play becomes a path, and movement a language, gently awakening a deep connection to the beauty, rhythm, and meaning of the world.
Waldorf Philosophy
Rudolf Steiner envisioned education as a living journey, where the child learns through wonder, imagination, and deep connection.
In Waldorf, knowledge awakens through story, art, and rhythm, nurturing not just the mind, but the heart and hands as well.
More than a method, it is a way of seeing the child as whole, growing in harmony with the world.
This experience arises from a growing need in modern childhood, where the accelerating presence of technology and artificial intelligence saturates daily life, often pulling children away from the rhythms of the body and the language of the senses.
Light Play Art offers a counterbalance, a return to presence, to movement, and to the quiet wisdom of lived experience.
Modern childhood is at a crossroads.
Global health data reveals a stark crisis: over 80% of adolescents aged 11–17 fail to meet recommended daily physical activity levels . In many countries, fewer than 20% of youth engage in at least 60 minutes of active play each day .
Parallel to this, screen and technology saturation have soared. In the U.S., half of teens aged 12–17 now spend four hours or more daily on screens—and prolonged exposure is linked to anxiety and depression . Globally, as children saturate their days with digital input, they drift from real-world engagement and embodied learning .
Today’s parents were far more active in their own childhood—raising urgent questions about current and future motor skills, creativity, emotional resilience, and overall development. And as artificial intelligence layers yet more digital abstraction around young minds, children risk growing as passive consumers rather than active co-creators of a living world.
Light Play Art stands as a powerful counterbalance a dramatic, sensory-rich antidote to the sedentary, tech-drenched patterns of modern childhood. It is a deliberate invitation back into the body, the senses, and the human rhythms that inspire wonder, creativity, and transformation.