{"id":549244,"date":"2026-04-25T01:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549244\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T01:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:19:07","slug":"an-interactive-archive-celebrates-the-wide-ranging-projects-inviting-unruly-play-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549244\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interactive Archive Celebrates the Wide Ranging Projects Inviting ‘Unruly Play’ \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cPlay is how we give permission,\u201d says Vitor Freire, co-founder of the Amsterdam-based studio Imagination of Things<\/a>. \u201cPermission to challenge what\u2019s fixed, rehearse what doesn\u2019t exist yet, and close the distance between people who wouldn\u2019t otherwise meet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Freire and co-founder Monique Grimord take play seriously and, in a new project, their studio created a vast repository of 169 artworks, designs, games, and more that have offered an unexpected encounter with imagination and joy. From Rael San Fratello\u2019s award-winning \u201cTeeter-Totter Wall<\/a>\u201d to the healing Wind Phone<\/a> project to a 12-foot puppet<\/a> walking the world, Unruly Play<\/a> is a multi-decade archive of participatory projects, public spaces, and digital creations that invite surprise and camaraderie.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur collaborators have always asked us where our ideas come from,\u201d Gimrod says, \u201cand the truth is that they come from references that rarely talk to each other\u2014it can be a seesaw through a border wall or a phone booth connected to the dead\u2026 We wanted to create unusual dialogues and support new creative practices, and Unruly Play was our answer for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fully interactive, the project<\/a> is searchable by theme or browsable through a shuffle feature. To dive deeper into the power of play, check out this compendium<\/a> of artist-designed spaces.<\/p>\n

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member<\/a> now, and support independent arts publishing.<\/p>\n

Hide advertising<\/p>\n

Save your favorite articles<\/p>\n

Get 15% off in the Colossal Shop<\/a><\/p>\n

Receive members-only newsletter<\/p>\n

Give 1% for art supplies in K-12 classrooms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPlay is how we give permission,\u201d says Vitor Freire, co-founder of the Amsterdam-based studio Imagination of Things. \u201cPermission…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6510,41888,6225,6485,6486,1120,1109,96,27081,9210,88788,19344,10552,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-549244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-architecture","tag-archive","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-digital","tag-entertainment","tag-installation","tag-performance","tag-playgrounds","tag-public-art","tag-sculpture","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}