“Everybody has the right to play.” It says that in large letters right on the wall at the entrance to Trane All-Abilities Park. It’s a declaration that the people of… Read more »
An All-Abilities Park Opens In Wisconsin
Blog Category: Design Ideas
How an Office Slide is Adding Fun and Excitement at a Cybersecurity Firm
If you’ve ever worked in a dreary office, you know the feeling of being uninspired. The route from the front door to your desk feels sterile and rehearsed. The carpet… Read more »
Euroflex Balls and Half Balls: Play, Sit, Behold
Materials are an important aspect of what makes a play space feel welcoming. Children are drawn to spaces they can explore through touch, to tactile shapes and forms that spark… Read more »
Going Deep with G Cody QJ Goldberg, Founder of Harper’s Playground
G Cody QJ Goldberg has had an interesting career, to say the least. The child of bonafide San Francisco hippies, he earned a BFA in film and television studies at… Read more »
The 6 Best Sculptural Playgrounds
If the playspaces finding their way to the “best-of” lists of publications such as Business Insider, Mental Floss, and Land 8 are a sign of the future, the days of… Read more »
Recess is Making a Comeback: Now Required by Law in Five States
Twenty minutes is the amount of time it takes to eat breakfast or do a short exercise routine. It’s also the amount of time elementary school children in Florida, Rhode… Read more »
The Children’s School of Oak Park: Nature-Play on a Paved Courtyard and a Tiny Budget
The Children’s School of Oak Park, a progressive K-8 school outside Chicago, turned their parking lot into a nature play space on a nonprofit budget—a little over $1,000 all told…. Read more »
Best Playgrounds and Playscapes of 2018
We bid farewell to the past year with feelings of hope and accomplishment. As we set our sights on 2019, we take heart not only in the varied ways the… Read more »
Access is Not Inclusion: The Battlecry of the Play Brigade
A little more than four years ago, when Dawn Oates took her youngest daughter, Harper, to a neighborhood playground in Boston to play with her older twin siblings, she found… Read more »
The Shape and Form of Playgrounds
To the curious eye, forms and shapes are everywhere. From turrets and lampshades to clock gears and armadillos, the world is alive with architecture. And it’s reasonable to presume most… Read more »
Could A Music Playground Be Your Child’s First Instrument?
When children learn to talk, they start by making sounds, then imitating those they hear. Richard Cooke, who has created a family of xylophone-like and percussive instruments for parks, believes… Read more »
Modern Offices Borrow a Page from Playgrounds
Wellbeing is the word echoing through the boardrooms of Fortune 100 companies vying to recruit and retain top talent. From the rock climbing wall at Google’s New York headquarters to… Read more »
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