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# Check out these awesome Czech playground designs inspired by Sputnik
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/these-czech-playground-designs-were-inspired-sputnik/
- Published: 2012-09-26T20:30:09.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:52:24.000Z
- Description: Paige Johnson at Playscapes dug up some bizarre playground designs from Czechoslavakia in 1960. In searching for more information on the intriguing satellite-inspired play structure by Zden?k N?me?ek featured at the MoMA Century of the Child exhibition I found some fascinating references to a play
- Author: Rachel Helps
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Paige Johnson at Playscapes dug up some bizarre playground designs from Czechoslavakia in 1960.

> In searching for more information on the intriguing [satellite-inspired play structure by Zden?k N?me?ek featured at the MoMA Century of the Child exhibition](http://playgrounddesigns.blogspot.com/2012/09/playgrounds-at-momas-century-of-child.html?ref=killscreen.com) I found some fascinating references to a play design contest “D?ti ve m?st?“, organized in Czechoslavakia in 1960\. Was this the Eastern bloc’s answer to MoMA’s 1954 playground sculpture competition?  
>  

They look like something out of Wallace & Grommit.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/-zUxBWiPs1RM/UGLsg6H40BI/AAAAAAAAHu4/qm-GFw4nq3k/s640/novak_sputnik_modern_playground_sculpture_1960s_midcentury.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/-2wyawV0Uezs/UGLs0Fv9tmI/AAAAAAAAHvI/u427VYQ4iRo/s640/unknown_modern_playground_sculpture_1960s_midcentury2.jpg)