News & Installations

Featured Installation

Moon Garden Playspace at Lloyd Center Mall

Reserve your time to come play! Mudland Scheduling Mudland Playspace at the Moon Garden in Lloyd Center Mall is an outer-space-themed playroom for children ages 0-teen opening mid-March! Built by artists and including moveable scenery, fort building materials, puppets and costumes, children get to help create this cosmic play universe.

Sven Playroom Launches!

Mudland designed the playspace for this new 750-foot LEED Platinum residential tower, responding to the beautiful minimal, natural palette of the building’s interior.

Mudland Play Kits

Party with rentable kits for play at home!

Custom Toys for Sven Playroom

Giant bespoke playthings to stretch the imagination.

Play Studies by Reese Bowes

Designer Reese Bowes created some meditative studies in sound and imagery for Mudland.

Sven Playroom Long Island City

Mudland collaborated with artist Sophie Smallhorn to imagine the ultimate kids playroom for a new residential building in New York.

Mud Day 2019

Another fun day of mud play in NYC

Mud Day at the VIA

Our Mud Day at the VIA in midtown Manhattan was a huge success. Check out the photos here!

Portland's First Adventure Playground

Portland Free Play started an Adventure Play Garden! Find us and help fund the campaign.

IDA Grant Recipient!

Katie is an IDA matched savings grant recipient from MercyCorps NW!

Portland Free Play & the Adventure Play Movement

Katie works with a local group, Portland Free Play, bringing opportunities for creative, messy, unstructured play.

Why Mud?

Research shows the importance of nature play to children’s development, but children today have little access to play in the dirt.

Loose Parts at Vernon Elementary

What happens when you introduce loose parts to recess at a public elementary school?

Extraordinary Playscapes Catalog is Out!

This catalog is full of great examples of playgrounds around the world and essays about play!

Campference

The Playwork Campference was a camping conference for folks involved in adventure play that took place in Val Verde, CA.

Association of Children's Museums Annual Conference

Photos from the conference of our pop-up play installation. We talked about the importance of nature play and access to materials kids can build with.

Richard Dattner-designed PlayPanels, Built by Todd Isaacs of Spacecraft

We have a set of PlayPanels, designed by architect Richard Dattner, that are making the rounds at our pop-up play days!