The Radian team has partnered with the City of Lamar and the GOCO Inspire Initiative to improve Willow Creek Park so that it continues to be a great place to hang out and encourage residents to enjoy the outdoors. Lamar approached Radian with a challenge of replacing the playground with a diversity of elements that are more integrated with nature and the surroundings.
Using our Tiny Wonderful placemaking initiative, we set out to engage families and kids in Lamar in imagining what a new playground could look like, and then bringing those ideas to life using our library of pop-up materials.

We partnered with the grand opening of Wheel Park in order to engage community members of all ages to identify play elements that inspire them. Through this workshop, we collected qualitative and quantitative data in order to develop a pop-up playground later in the fall.

Using art supplies and “found objects” scattered on tables, we challenged kids from the community to create a model of the type of playground they would love to play on. They created 35 playground models, featuring a wide range of creative ideas, including a teeter-totter, zipline, swing, canopy bridge, trampoline, rock climbing wall, and more!