This new ‘risky' playground is a work of art – and a place for kids to escape their mollycoddling parents

  • Written by: Sanné Mestrom, Senior Lecturer, DECRA Fellow, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
This new ‘risky' playground is a work of art – and a place for kids to escape their mollycoddling parentsMike Hewson

Imagine this: a heap of colourful plastic buckets stacked on top of each other to form a climbable bridge, monolithic bluestone boulders holding up a contorted slide, a pile of concrete demolition debris moonlighting as a resting spot.

At every point, children can be seen swinging their bodies from warped, dented monkey bars and...

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