100 Seriously Fun Ways to Make Your Town More Playful | CommunityMatters

Yes, yes, yes! This is so exciting! I love some of these ideas on how to encourage play in your community as a way of creating joy and growing community bonds:

Here’s our list of 75 100 ways that you can start making your city or town a playful place:

Join the CommunityMatters conference call on play and placemaking

1. Join the CommunityMatters conference call on play and placemaking 
2. Turn the subway into a swing set 
3. Munch people with your eyes
4. Turn your street into a Play Street 
5. Let sidewalks be trampolines
6. Play pong with traffic lights
7. Transform a set of stairs into a piano
8. Give pedestrians the keys to your city
9. Host a hummingbirdman rally
10. Embed games in public seating
11. Think more like a roller coaster designer
12. Rethink the public library as a place for play
13. Start a citywide festival of play
14. Challenge people to try alternative transportation
15. Create a local currency, then turn it into a game
16. Get all ethereal and make a playground in the air
17. Install a swing just about anywhere
18. Make a plan for engaging your community in play

see the first 74 via 75 Seriously Fun Ways to Make Your Town More Playful | CommunityMatters.

The other 25 were posted here, and included:

1. Add cheer to the streets with tiny notes.
2. Host a temporary tattoo parlor.
3. Get out on the street with a popcorn machine.  Idea from @wemakegood
4. Three words: Cardboard Animal Picnic. Inspired by Patrick McDonnell
5. Stop standing and start sitting with bench bombing.
6. Install a Givebox.  Idea from @wanderingzito
7. Start a bell box mural project.
8. Conduct pointless surveys.  Idea from @uncustomaryart…

Related articles

• Three Lessons On Placemaking (nextcity.org)
• MIT report on placemaking (lawprofessors.typepad.com)
• The 7 Psychological Functions of the Art of Placemaking (resilience.org)