Gallery

Browse our gallery for inspiration from the Play Everywhere ideas and installations happening across the U.S.

  • Urban Thinkscape

    An empty lot was transformed into a place for puzzles, games, mathematics, and reading.

  • iPlay MIAMI Streets

    iPlay MIAMI Streets transformed dead-end streets in Miami communities into playspaces for kids.

  • Nooks

    A colorful, shapeable, snake-like structure called Nooks will be located outside the school building, accessible to all community members.

  • Entangled

    Entangled is an interactive installation that was created to embrace the culture and history of the Little Haiti community in Miami, FL.

  • Trailhead Parklet

    Trailhead Parklet transformed the public space of Walkable Olean into a wonderland with many activities for kids and families.

  • Loopholes

    Loopholes is a playable sculpture composed of five open, climbable cylinders with peek-a-boo holes throughout.

  • Breakwater

    Breakwater consists of several colorfully coated dolosse — prefabricated, pre-cast concrete elements that engineers interlock to form protective breakwaters along shorelines.

  • Let It Flow, Mount Clemens

    This project includes four interactive art installations including an immersive, 3D-effect river mural in an alleyway, and a staircase mural that includes letters and numbers that spell out a secret message.

  • Connect Community Crossroads

    Painted streets help remind kids to take care when crossing the road.

  • Play Space at Bethel Church

    Concrete squares were turned into brilliantly colored art, surrounded by trees.

  • Food Playscape

    Swapping asphalt for a lush, nature-based oasis for families to play.

  • Esquina de Musica

    Artist and designer Falon Mihalic partnered with the Open Architecture Institute Houston to develop an interactive 3000 square feet musical space at the Leonel Castillo Community Center.

  • Playful Pathways

    This project creates an oasis of fun in a corner of Proyecto Pastoral’s parking lot, bringing new life and color.

  • BuHi Lights

    We Love BuHi, Inc. works to connect the multicultural community in Atlanta’s Buford Highway corridor.

  • Nashville Soundbox

    A mobile parklet installation in Nashville transforms spaces that were not previously play areas into a musical playground.

  • Indigenous Play for Active Lives

    An interactive and portable sidewalk display engages kids with play, singing, counting, and speaking in Native American languages.

  • Camino a Jugar

    Playful and artistic crosswalks enhance the pedestrian experience downtown.

  • Yellow Brick Road Play Street

    A play street that is as practical as it is magical.

  • Playful Walking School Buses

    This project infused “play on the way” opportunities for walking school bus routes.

  • Sand Zone!

    A 3,600 square foot parking lot was transformed into a pop-up playspace.

  • Oakland Public Design Fair

    People of Oakland answered the call to come up with playful designs.

  • Happy Lane

    San Francisco transformed public sidewalk to invite kids to squat, jump, or run in place.

  • Mosaic Miniature Market

    Unused space in front of a store was transformed into a playful, kid-sized market.

  • Giant Chairs and Mobile Recreation

    Seven feet tall Adirondack chairs mark pop-up play days in parks.

  • Brightmoor Runway

    A section of a broken sidewalk was transformed into an illuminated running, play, and exercise track.

  • OX4D

    OX4D takes informal play to the next level at a public housing community in Houston, Texas.

  • Chicago Children’s Theatre: Dreams on Parade

    Chicago Children’s Theatre’s (CCT’s) Dreams on Parade leads citizens on a treasure hunt around Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood and surrounding communities.

  • Upswing: Retractable Jump Ropes and Sidewalk Play

    Repurposed cigarette stands offer play opportunities near barber shops and salons for low-income neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia.

  • Veteran’s Memorial Bus Stop

    The Veteran’s Memorial Bus Stop in McFarland, California, gives families the opportunity to “play” in unexpected places.

  • Metro McAllen Swing-and-Ride

    A busy bus stop on a barren landscape was transformed into a fun, exciting space for low income kids and their families.

  • Perma-PlayStreets

    This project encouraging kids in South Chicago to make play, every day.

  • Animal Tracks

    Together with Smithsonian’s National Zoo, the DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative (DCPNI) transformed an isolated, low-income neighborhood into an animal-lovers paradise. Animal Tracks gives kids and adults alike the opportunity to learn about animals—what they look, feel and sound like—as they make their way to and from the Kenilworth Courts Community Center.

  • Building Playware

    A normal sidewalk was transformed into a destination for kids and adults to stop and play.

  • Project Projection

    The weather in Plattsburgh, NY may be unpredictable, but Project Projection offers visitors year-round fun.

  • BUSt! Boredom

    Goodbye boring commute! BUSt! Boredom offers Lexington, Kentucky, transit riders access to visual art installations and creative programming during their wait for the bus.

  • York’s Playful Sidewalks

    Sidewalk murals and playful bus shelters encouraging kids (and grown-ups) to hop, balance, and move.

  • Laundromat Theater

    The Laundromat Theater transforms an ordinary errand into an opportunity for families to connect and create.

  • GovPorch

    GovPorch reimagines the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center Plaza as a fun space where kids and their families can spend time and exercise their active minds, bodies, and souls.

  • Mobile Play Laboratory

    The Mobile Play Laboratory transforms shipping containers into a highly mobile, visible, inviting, and flexible play laboratory for kids of all ages.

  • Big Play on Laundry Day

    Parents and caregivers become kids again on laundry day in two Spartanburg, South Carolina, housing projects. Doing laundry will never be the same!

  • Bronx Steps 2 Health: Pathway of Play

    Bronx Steps 2 Health: Pathway of Play activates the South Bronx’s step streets with colorful public art that invites play, promotes physical activity, and sparks social interaction.

  • Sidewalk Chalk Flood 2.0

    Thanks to playable spaces, inclement weather takes on a whole new meaning for students at King Elementary in Des Moines, Iowa.

  • Story Book Walk Outside Phillis Wheatly Library

    Stories come alive outside the Phillis Wheatley library.

  • Kit of Parks

    Kit of Parks delivers play in less than 5 minutes to low income families in Boston.

  • The Place Where They Play

    Play panels that stimulate the mind, body, and spirit offer safe spaces to the Tahlequah, Oklahoma, community.

  • J.U.M.P.! or Join Us at the MARTA Playspace

    The JUMP Playspace uses murals and games to turn a bare, uninviting gateway in Decatur, Georgia, into a dedicated space for creativity and play.

  • Mathieu Court Alley Play Street

    Interactive games and artwork transformed an alley into a street where families can have a fun in a park-deficient neighborhood.

  • Play Oakland Mosaic Trash Can Makeovers

    Art and whimsy provide surprising moments of wonder on cement trashcans in Oakland, California.

  • Rail Trail Symphony

    Rail Trail Symphony is a colorful installation of musical instruments that encourages collaborative jam sessions with neighbors along a busy corridor.