(Pinta tu Cancha – Spanish | Pinte Sua Quadra – Portuguese)
Paint Your Court is a regional initiative led by The Place Institute to recover and reactivate community sports courts across Latin America through a place-based, people-centered approach.
Across the region, sports courts are among the most common and accessible public spaces. They are where young people play, families gather, and community life unfolds. Yet many of these spaces are underused or neglected, not because communities do not care, but because they lack the support, design, and activation needed to thrive.
Paint Your Court is being developed as a response to this challenge.
Building on the experience and success of court-based placemaking initiatives implemented in partnership with Fundación Placemaking, the program scales a proven methodology beyond a single country into a broader Latin American context. The goal is to move from isolated interventions toward a regional program that supports communities in reclaiming their courts as active, inclusive, and meaningful places.
The program is grounded in a simple but powerful idea: courts are not just infrastructure, they are social places. When designed and activated with communities, they can support physical activity, cultural expression, local identity, and everyday social life.
The program will be delivered within 6 months (March 2026 to August 2026) through parallel implementation by local teams:
12 courts revitalized with designs reflecting local identity and subtle references to partner identity.
Community festivals at each court for activation and inauguration.
Formation of community groups for long-term management.
Impact report with metrics on participation, health, and resilience.