The playground in an amazing way gathers the hopes and despair of today’s society, perhaps much more than any other public art project because it needs fewer resources to build and it immedially accessible to the public.
This new project is about playgrounds; understood as places that embody both the hopes and despairs of contemporary society.The origins of the project can be traced back to discussions in the Pedagogies of Care room led by Andris Brinkmanis—in particular, his meeting with the Contrafilé group. Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Grupo Contrafilé is an art-politics-education production group that focuses on encounters with different people and communities — always from a cartographic perspective.
