The Imagination Playground original digital interactive, part of the PLAY WORK BUILD exhibit at National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., was recently featured in the April issue of Metropolis Magazine. Highlighting the work of LAB at Rockwell Group in the article, Smart Building Blocks, the digital block wall was part of “A global roundup [...]
April was a busy one for Imagination Playground Play Dates with block play happening on opposite ends of the US. Joining our friends on the West Coast on April 19-20, the Imagination Playground team crossed the Golden Gate Bridge to charming Sausalito, home of the Bay Area Discovery Museum. As a fellow advocate of child-directed [...]
On April 19th, Imagination Playground participated with Jean Schrieber, M.S. in the 10th Annual Young Child Expo & Conference. Presented by Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education and Los Niños Services, the conference brings together over 1,000 educators, childcare experts and parents in order to learn about child education and development. An early [...]
We’re excited to announce that the second site-specific Imagination Playground park will arrive in 2015! NYC Parks and Rockwell Group joined neighborhood children to unveil the design of the new playground in Brooklyn. At the event, a classic set of blocks was donated to the Brownsville Recreation Center to encourage free play and creativity prior to the [...]
We hope everyone is out there doing their part to make a difference today – & throughout the years ahead. Fun fact: did you know that in addition to being made from safe, durable lightweight foam, Imagination Playground Blocks are also biodegradable and recyclable! To learn more: http://ow.ly/kiUGT
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From The Child in the City of Play lectures at MoMA last year to our recent involvement with Louisiana Children’s Museum and Places to Play in New Orleans, Imagination Playground has been thinking a lot about how environments can impact children’s growth and learning through play. Early in the month Alex Smith at Playgroundology [...]
February kicked off several Imagination Playground Playdates, on-going in select cities throughout the US. Starting with NYC’s 92nd Street Y on February 3rd, Imagination Playground participated in the Countdown to Camps event. Our big blue blocks were out on the penthouse racquetball court. The clear open space and high white walls were a clean [...]
Parents know that play helps kids grow up happy and healthy. Academic and medical research has proven it. In Imagination Playground’s Learning Library you will gain access to studies and scholarly articles, written by some of the foremost authorities on childhood development that greatly support the need for more free, creative, and imaginative play. [...]
