Urban Playground: 2015 Is Looking Sweet!

I do believe the rusted, splintered, sun-bleached erection fenced inside the city park is called a playground. Probably planted there decades ago, it’s bound to continue its rot. I’m sure in the beginning it was a design of its time. But isn’t its time up? Industrial designers Alain Gilles and team, certainly seem to think so. Fast forward to 2015, a time when urban playgrounds might, once again, become inviting. One look at these 2015-proposed conceptual designs, and you’ll be RSVPing your (or that of your future spawn’s) playtime, I promise. A series of colorful, interactive elements that inspire all manner of play, these stand-alone structures can also readily be moved to motivate new games. Bright green, shakable palm trees and ant-bodied “little communities,” just two of the economically feasible constructions serving to break the decay of the urban playground we know today. The future is looking fun to me!