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To get involved email us at [email protected] Go Play! (we are now called www.playgroundideas.org), a non-profit that builds playgrounds throughout the developing world for some of the world’s most disadvantaged children, is seeking to hire enthusiastic, dedicated interns starting in last half of 2010 . Interns will work individually and collectively with each other and […]

Below is a list of the best links we can find about: -The importance of play -How to design a play space with the right design and equipment and -How to make it safe but not too safe (thats right, playgrounds can be too safe). 1) The first 2 links are involved with designing your […]

Mark Booker contacted us a month or so ago desperately looking for advice and designs to build a playground With community he had be staying with in the philipines. A few days ago we got our first photo of the great work he has been doing out in the mddle of nowhere. Well, All I […]

The following pictures are the best designs from the ArtPlay exhibition on in May this year. Every year a bunch of Monash University Department of Architecture students get a chance to create a playspace from cardboard to encourage the use of this low cost (often waste material) and give it a bit more life before it is recycled […]

ladscape arch comp flyer   GoPlay has been selected as the subject for the latest AILA fresh competition!. AILA fresh is a group of the most commited young designers from the Australian Institute of Landscape Architectects. Hence the 'fresh' part. The competition was launched at softbelly in Melbourne last week and will run for a […]

Below is an article from the Association of Childrens Education International (ACEI) and we believe it is the most concise summary of the Value of play for children. Here are some quotes and a link. Thanks to ACEI for sharing this freely.  "Theorists, regardless of their orientation, concur that play occupies a central role in […]

After 2  solid years more than 45 playgrounds, dengue fever, an AWOL appendix and a lot of hot, rainy weather, Go Play! is moving north to build another bunch more in the lush green mountains of northern Thailand. If you in the area and want to come and help just go to the member ship […]

All of these playgrounds have been built entirely from locally sourced materials, with local tools and with local hands, many of whom had never built or perhaps even seen a real full playground.