A Bell-Powered Playground for Collective Listening
French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot is widely known for uncovering the musical potential of objects and materials that were never intended to function as instruments. Rather…
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Vienna’s Weirdest Street Objects Are Secretly Genius
wim The first thing you notice is the red. A thick, corrugated red hose loops and curls its way through the Hirschstetten neighborhood of Vienna…
The Most Creative Public Space Design Right Now Is Made of Trash
The first time I saw images of Concrete Utopia, I assumed it was a render. The kind of thing that circulates on design Instagram before…
The Award-Winning Playground Built to Never Be Replaced
Most playground equipment exists to check boxes. There’s a slide, a climbing frame, maybe a wobbly bridge if the budget stretched far enough. You’ve seen…
Belgian Designer Just Built the Alien Playground Kids Dream About
When you think of Belgian fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck, you probably picture bold runway shows and provocative collections that push boundaries. As a member…
This Award-Winning Swing Feeds Birds When Kids Aren’t Playing
There’s something delightfully clever about design that refuses to pick just one job. You know what I’m talking about: those rare pieces that make you…
LEGO + Nike turn Shanghai schoolyard into a colorful play-sport hub
A bright new playground has opened at Baoshan No. 2 Central Primary School in Shanghai, where the worlds of LEGO bricks and Nike sportswear collide to…
This Guangzhou Playground is an Urban Jungle where Artful Play meets Nature-Inspired Design
Nestled within a residential district of Guangzhou, Wired Scape is not just a playground, it’s an immersive, sculptural landscape that redefines how urban public space…
Naoto Fukasawa and Jakuets Bring Imagination to Life with “Playful Sculptures”
Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa, renowned for his minimalist and human-centered design philosophy, has partnered with Jakuets, a century-old Japanese manufacturer of educational materials and play…
Volcanic lava and its flow helped inspire the design for this eye-catching Magma-themed playground
If “The Floor Is Lava” were a proper, legit game (not with real lava of course), I imagine it would look exactly like the Magma…
The Cuddly Playground is a large public art where children are free to explore
The Cuddly Playground is a place where kids can go wild. Of course, you can say it’s just another playground for the children, but this…
This Nike playground is constructed with 20,000 upcycled sneakers!
Nike is one of my favorite brands for several reasons – they always make the user the hero in all that they do, capture emotion…