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Adventure Playground

Opening context:
Common Land, Connected Play

Conflict

A castle, made of cartons, rocks, and old branches, by a group of children for themselves, is worth a thousand perfectly detailed, exactly finished castles, made for them in a factory.

Resolution

Set up a playground for the children in each neighborhood. Not a highly finished playground, with asphalt and swings, but a place with raw materials of all kinds — nets, boxes, barrels, trees, ropes, simple tools, frames, grass, and water — where children can create and re-create playgrounds of their own.

Closing context:
Sunny Place, Bike Paths and Racks, Garden Growing Wild, Child Caves, Sitting Wall