Burling Slip
Imagination Playground Axonometric
Burling Slip
Interior View Looking Towards Pier 17
Burling Slip
Interior View Looking Towards City
Burling Slip
Loose Parts Play in Open Area
Brownsville
Imagination Playground in a BOX - Sand, Water, Loose Parts play
Big BOX
Imagination Playground in a Big BOX - Sand, Water, Loose Parts play
Imagination Playground at Burling Slip
Rockwell Group and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation collaborated to create a new play space at Burling Slip in lower Manhattan. A unique child-centric downtown oasis, Imagination Playground combines sand, water, “loose parts” and play associates to encourage a constantly changing environment where children can play, dream and build. Activity is mixed with creativity by providing diverse materials to promote unstructured “free play.”
Construction begins 2008 / Scheduled to open 2009.
Imagination Playground in a BOX
Imagination Playground in a BOX makes the principles of unstructured free play accessible to any community across the country. This semi-mobile kit features an array of loose parts adaptable to many different site conditions such as parks, childcare environments and schools.
Imagination Playground in a BOX launches at Brooklyn’s Brownsville Playground on July 8, 2008.
Imagination Playground and KaBOOM!
Rockwell Group and KaBOOM!, the nation’s leading not-for-profit dedicated to bringing play back into the lives of children, have partnered to implement a new generation of play spaces across the United States based on the concepts introduced with Imagination Playground at Burling Slip.
KaBOOM! anticipates over 1,000 Imagination Playgrounds across the country over the next five years.
