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in partnership with Georgia Tech

November 20, 2011

Check out the blog entry and pictures of the winning design for Playable10 built and unveiled at the National Recreation and Parks Association convention on November 1, 2011. The structure will be installed in Woodruff Park in Spring 2012. Congratulations, Winner Jeff Santos!

October 31, 2011

The winning design will be unveiled at the National Recreation and Parks Association conference on Noveber 1, 2011. It will be installed in Woodruff Park in Spring 2012. Details will be posted later about the timing for the Spring Opening Ceremony.

July 12, 2011

If your membership has not been approved please send us an email. We have been hit by spammers.

April 18, 2011

The ideas for the next Playable International Design Competition are coming together. It is going to be extraordinary and we are working on a much more substantial budget for you to work with. It is going to be late summer/fall 2011 before we announce, but don't give up. You will not want to miss this one.

For now, we are working on a Playable Art Park in a community just north of Atlanta, Georgia called Sandy Springs. We will build 6+ playable art structures for a new greenway. This particular competition must be geographically limited. The structures must be built within a four hour drive of Atlanta. Details to follow. The RFP is due to be released on July 1, 2011. 

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February 15, 2011 We just returned from Paris where we visited with Atelier Sensomoto whose design, P-new, was the runner-up in PlayableDIY. We visited potential sites in the 13th Arrondissement where the playground will be built this summer. 

January 6, 2010 Work has begun on the Playable Art design for downtown Atlanta's Woodruff Park.  The target opening is planned for late Spring 2010.  We will post pictures as it is being built.

We have been attacked by countless spammers lately.  If you have requested membership and have not heard back from us, please email us at questions@playabledesign.org

Congratulations to the honorees in PlayablelO International Design Competition. We will show you more detail of the top 30+ submissions and open up discussions. Also, the DIY instruction manuals will soon be available for download.

All of the semifinalists will go back up with credits shortly (if we don't get the full credit correct please notify and we'll correct immediately.)

PlayablelO:
86 registrations
65 submissions
ART: 30
DIY: 10
SITE: 25
The judges did not name a winner in the PlayableSITE category, but instead three submissions received honorable mention

Thank you to everyone who worked so hard on this submissions. We will be highlighting many of them in the weeks and months to come.


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