The Playground Project runs at the Baltic from 15 July – 30 October 2016 and is free.
The Disaster Playground project previews at the V&A museum in London this weekend; go to disasterplayground.com for details.
Following renovations to the playground, project designers say, the remainder will go toward improving restrooms, irrigation, lighting, landscaping and accessibility for the handicapped — plus a few extras.
Less expected is "The Playground Project," a show-within-the-show organized by the Swiss writer and urban planner Gabriela Burkhalter.
The star exhibit at The Playground Project is a Lozziwurm, a tangle of interlocking plastic pipes in which children can crawl, slide and hide.
(When the International opens on Oct. 5, "The Playground Project" will reopen along with it, expanded with playground-related artworks as well as projects produced by the museum's Summer Camps program).
It advertises the most unusual feature of this International: an elaborate show within the show, called "The Playground Project," which documents the history, current development, and future prospects of urban playgrounds.
Risky contraptions and hiding places are on the wane in the safety-conscious playgrounds of today, but they've been rediscovered in an exhibition called "The Playground Project," at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh through Aug. 11.
Though the Carnegie has no stated theme, the excellent catalog places emphasis on play as essential to art and life; "The Playground Project" gives liberating experiential form to its thesis.
