Children gather around the bright red forms of Noguchi’s Playground Equipment (1940)
Children interact with Noguchi’s circular sculptural forms
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Jul 31, 2026dan ortiz leizman adds strings to the monobloc chair, turning it into a playable instrument
ayumi tsuchiya’s wooden sculptures are made for touching, playing, and listening
Jul 29, 2026ai weiwei on why a dying tree inspired his first drawing in more than 50 years
Jul 28, 2026‘bomb scars bring the wall back to rock’: artist pavel rotts maps war through climbing
Jul 21, 2026surreal mother and son photo series tells the lives of korean women through humor and play
Aug 01, 2026san francisco’s exploratorium turns STEM learning into hands-on play
Aug 01, 2026ippolito pestellini laparelli and erica petrillo of 2050+ on ‘the parking lot that forgot itself’
Jul 31, 2026tearing paper and wrestling mud, gutai played with creative freedom in postwar japan
Jul 31, 2026dan ortiz leizman adds strings to the monobloc chair, turning it into a playable instrument
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Aug 02, 2026päivi raivio’s basic forms turns the barbican into a movable urban playground
Jul 23, 2026sharmistha ray turns pittsburgh pickleball courts into playable geometric artwork
Jul 22, 2026why does creativity need play? lidewij edelkoort & philip fimmano discuss their ‘inner child’
Jul 18, 2026BIGX super sports playground shapes a digital landscape through steel, light, and color
Jul 18, 2026céleste boursier-mougenot composes music through a ring of swings and bells
Aug 01, 2026designboom radar: exhibitions to see around the world this august
explore our monthly round up of must-see art, design, and architecture exhibitions to check out around the world.
Jul 29, 2026ai weiwei on why a dying tree inspired his first drawing in more than 50 years
in conversation with designboom, the artist reflects on aging, history, and why the death of a 1,200-year-old oak compelled him to draw again.
Jul 20, 2026children’s drawings turn into playful makeup looks in ‘draw me a face’ project
the collaborative experiment suggests that some of the most original ideas take shape before we learn the rules of beauty, proportion, or perfection.
Jul 08, 2026‘there is nothing convenient about my work’: lucy sparrow on sewing a supermarket
in her latest exhibition, the british artist traces how the supermarket changed when convenience entered the home through more than 20,000 felt products.
