Wild Zones are places where adults, children and adolescents can co-create a new form of public space that is dedicated to unstructured free play in nature.   Wild Zones differ from parks and nature reserves because they offer opportunities to interact with the environment rather than leaving it untouched.

  1. •build dens, forts and fairyhouses

  2. •make new pathways

  3. •play around with water and mud

  4. •create sculptures from natural materials

  5. •invent games

  6. •many other kinds of free play

A Wild Zone is a place that allows for all types of play to be discovered by children, teenagers and adults. Each Wild Zone is an outdoor laboratory

of creativity with open-ended possibilities for

self-designed play, learning, and socializing.


Over time, evidence of the activities that have occurred in these zones becomes a changing portrait of the community's play and creativity: art trails, dams, gullies, tree houses, mazes, sculptures, forts, earthworks, benches, meeting places, performance spaces - a hand-built commons and collective work of art.

Watch our webinar hosted by KaBOOM! 

http://eventcenter.commpartners.com/se/Meetings/Playback.aspx?meeting.id=333080


A New Form of Social Space 




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