freedom, fantasy and learning…
Take a look at your average public playground. Fenced off from grass and trees, it will likely be an arrangement of cold metal and smooth plastic with an asphalt floor. While parents’ eyes dart between their children and their phones, kids will navigate each manmade object with a clear and controlled goal: swing on this, crawl through that, slide down this. Repeat.
It’s a shame, because young people are so intuitively imaginative and curious. Left to their own devices, they will amble off fearlessly in search of… well, whatever they find. Without the weight
