t’Hol van Stout Konijn
A playground on Vlieland created by the local children to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Into the Great Wide Open
Type: Playground design, Participatory Design
Date: 2018-19
Client: Into the Great Wide Open / Stichting KDSO
Partners: Stout Konijn, Basisschool De Jutter, Ijreka
Team: Daryl Mulvihill
Size: 1,400m2
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the festival Into the Great Wide Open commissioned a project to design a playground with the local children and festival goers, the “Hol van Stout Konijn” the home of a cheeky much loved rabbit who was created over the years as part of the festivals children’s programme. A larger than life Stout Konijn play sculpture acts as the fulcrum of the play space, sitting on a tunnel hill the different play and chill out spaces revolve around this centre piece.
The co-creation process
The co-creation process was extensive and lots of fun! we began in the local school, Basisschool De Jutter, with workshops that brought children into the design conversation. A prototype playground was built during the 2018 festival. During the school workshops we discovered the wish to increase the age range of the existing playground and to make it more challenging for older children, 7+ while still maintaining place for the younger children. The new equipment responds to this making a more challenging playscape where the play elements respond to each other, their users and the surroundings.
