Radical playground, from competition to collaboration




Photos of the site
Radical Playground
Gropius Bau, Berlin


“The architect Lina Bo Bardi famously said that every museum deserves a playground. Echoing that thought and anticipating the upcoming topic of play at the Gropius Bau, Radical Playgrounds arrives at Gropius Hain for eleven weeks. Conceived as a cross between a sculpture park, a Spielplatz (playground), a museum extension and a temporary funfair, many of its installations and pavilions use playground vocabulary, be it a swing, a water fountain, a carousel or a labyrinth, to reveal what is left unspoken: histories of inclusion and exclusion, engaging activism through the medium of play, a dark past buried underground and a necessity to rethink the notion of interdependence on this planet.


Our role as collaborators

As a close collaborator on the project, and with a team of about ten other colleagues, we were able to occupy the Radical Playground space for over four months to develop a sub-program, to be seen as an extension of the proposed program. Between mediation and action, we were quickly able to take ownership of the Playground space and the works presented with our vision and work.

With a purely transient audience, often composed of children and parents, I decided to focus on childhood memories about the notion of play. I distributed and then collected a questionnaire to establish a repertoire of games and drawings. With this graphic repertoire, I screen-printed numerous T-shirts for the public.




The form


Flyers / questionnaires distribués en 4 langues
Radical Playground
Gropius Bau,  Berlin






Answers & Drawings


 
Flyers / questionnaires remplies par les visiteur·euses
Radical Playground
Gropius Bau,  Berlin





Drawings prints



Scan des dessins présents dans les questionnaires remplies par les visiteur·euses
Radical Playground
Gropius Bau,  Berlin




Silkscreening Box




Boite construite pour y apposer les cadres de sérigraphie
Radical Playground
Gropius Bau,  Berlin




Screenprinting results







Dessins imprimés en sérigraphie sur papier et Tshirts
Radical Playground
Gropius Bau,  Berlin