Very First Imagination Playground Now Open
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 7:31PM I linked to the project over a year ago: Unstructured Free Play Interfaces: David Rockwell’s Imagination Playground.
Imagination Playground may be “low tech”, but it’s well-designed, very playful technology all the same:
Imagination Playground is a breakthrough playspace concept conceived and designed by architect David Rockwell to encourage child-directed, unstructured free play. With a focus on loose parts, Imagination Playground offers a changing array of elements that allows children to constantly reconfigure their environment and to design their own course of play. Giant foam blocks, mats, wagons, fabric and crates overflow with creative potential for children to play, dream, build and explore endless possibilities.
The Imagination Playground site now includes video of the concepts in action. The water features look especially fun.
There’s too many good nuggets to quote about Rockwell and the project. Go on, read:
Cities around the world are getting on board by purchasing Imagination Playground in a Box portable sets. Reportedly, Rockwell is assembling a book of interviews chronicling successful people’s early play experiences.
