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Karmiel Family Park
The Karmiel Family Park is considered a large urban park by Israeli standards. 18 dunams (around 4.5 acres) of attractions, slides, ropes, grasslands, bridges, balance beams, mini-golf, mazes etc....
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An artist designed playground and its unique patron by Susan Solomon
Paige’s Note: In her latest “After the Deadline” column, play chronicler extraordinaire Susan Solomon talks about one of everyone’s favorite playmakers: Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam and the unique...
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Ripple Effect Model Water Literacy Playscape, New Orleans, LA
Discovery within playscapes can happen on multiple levels – from the micro-scale sensory experience or observation of the natural world to a macro-scale discovery of the community context or larger...
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#TBT Cable Car on the Playground, San Francisco, c. 1950
There *once* was a decommissioned cable car for kids to play on at Golden Gate Park. And I wish there still was! “Real stuff”–train engines, fighter jets, and fire trucks–once provided imaginative...
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Traditional Daishan Swings, Nepal
As the heart of the world turns toward Nepal, I am reminded of its beautiful tradition of communal swings–constructed to celebrate the festival of Daishan in September-October. Bent bamboo and coconut...
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Natural Playscape, Suzanne van Ginneken, Leiden, Netherlands,
Start your Monday off happy with this lovely video of the kids at OBS woutertje Pieterse in Leiden, Netherlands using their natural playground, designed by Suzanne van Ginneken! The post Natural...
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Spaghetti Playgrounds!
Okay, so the architects who designed this beauty in Hamakita, Japan–the firm Suppose Design Co–call it “Forest Loops”, not spaghetti. Regardless, I love their addition of nets at the base to make what...
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Micro-architecture at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem – Play and Placemaking as...
I first came across this structure when visiting the Israel Museum a number of months ago. Construction had yet to be completed; perhaps this is the best time to assess a structure, since one can see...
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Playing Field — temporary playground
In recent years, the interest of ethnography in Poland has grown rapidly. Folk motifs appear in industrial design, graphics and even in architecture. In the year 2010 the Ethnographic Museum in Kraków...
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Submit your proposal for Boston’s PLAY-DAY, July 18, 2015!
On July 18 The Lawn on D, Boston’s new creative event space will host PLAY-DAY. Taking it’s cue from the tremendous popularity of the Lawn’s “Swing Time”, this one-day event will feature innovative...
View ArticleDIY Playscapes: How to make a Backyard Zipline!
Zip lines, aka flying foxes, are sadly absent from most US playgrounds due to–you guessed it–overblown liability fears. So make one in your backyard! Follow the instructions by I Like to Make Stuff...
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#TBT Modernist Playground, 1960, Brockwell Park, London
Many of the post-war modernist housing developments in the UK installed concrete playgrounds to match their similarly sparse exteriors. They were rarely successful as spaces, and most are now lost,...
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That Seventies Playground, London
Another lovely from English Heritage…this is a 1970s construct in the courtyard of London flats designed by the architects Andrews Sherlock and Partners. It’s the Aldo van Eyck’s jumping stones writ...
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Submit your proposal for Boston’s Play-Day!
Thanks to those of you who have gotten in touch so far and we look forward to hearing from more of you with proposals for Boston’s Play-Day, June 18 at the The Lawn on D! Requirements are fairly loose...
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BOULEvard Ball, a moving Playground! Studio ON/OFF, 2014
The BOULEvard ball, developed by studio ON/OFF for last fall’s Kanal Playground Festival in Brussels, was based on the “tensegrity” principles of Buckminster Fuller. It uses compression to create a...
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Woven Play Shelters by OGE Creative Group
Because I’m thinking about temporary play structures alot at the moment (Boston PlayDay! Send in your ideas!) here are two more unique woven structures from the OGE Creative Group. The “Red Blob”...
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What does “$20M in playground injuries” really mean?
Paige’s Note: One of the problems in discussions of playground safety and risk is the poor quality of playground injury statistics. The word “injury” can cover many things, from minor cuts and...
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Indian Village Reactivation
The original „Indian Village” was designed by architect Jacek Krenz and sculptor Maja Kuczyńska in the 1970s. Artists belonged to the so-called Kadyny Group and worked on the many projects for blocks...
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#TBT Recreating a vintage Polish Playground
For #TBT I was excited to learn that the midcentury “Indian Playground” constructed for a Polish high-rise housing estate was rebuilt for a design festival from remaining photographs and resident’s...
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Self-Made Playgrounds from Recycled Materials, Basurama
I never tire of the work of Spanish collective Basurama, whose practice “revolves around the reflection of trash, waste and reuse in all its formats and possible meanings”. In addition to the public...
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