WhatBox: POP-UP ADVENTURE PLAYGROUNDS

WhatBox is an attempt to honor the history and revive the benefit of junk playgrounds, founded in Denmark after the Second World War. Such spaces celebrate healthy risk and free play, enabling degrees of freedom and growth unknown to many children growing up today. An area like Trot Builder taps into every child's need to tinker, wonder and explore, encouraging imagination and experimentation in ways and degrees not available in other play or learning environments.
Most importantly, WhatBox gives kids a rare, worry-free, error-free opportunity to engage with real things using tools and test materials on their own. The communal nature of the playground ensures that it is tidy enough to be useful, yet messy enough to be fun, with a handcrafted aesthetic that aims to welcome everyone and scare no one.