playgrounds
Playground Safety is the Enemy of Joy
Artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi bends Lagos security piping into playgrounds, arguing that risk, not safety, is what makes play matter.
playgrounds
Artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi bends Lagos security piping into playgrounds, arguing that risk, not safety, is what makes play matter.
Podcast
Temitayo Ogunbiyi's practice began where most playground design stops: with a security fence. Watching galvanized steel piping used to wall off private compounds across Lagos, she saw instead a material she could turn into structures for public play, cheap, weatherproof, and endlessly reconfigurable. In this conversation, she traces