Pop-Up Adventure Play

Pop-Up Adventure Play is a not-for-profit play advocacy organization founded in the United States with centres in other countries. It is also a registered charity in the UK.^[1]

Pop-Up Adventure Play

Formation	2011
Website	popupadventureplay.org

History

Pop-Up Adventure Play was first founded in the United States with support from Fractured Atlas^[2] in order to translate the UK playwork tradition for use in the US.^[3] It was later established as a Private company limited by guarantee, and then a charity, in the United Kingdom.^[4][1] Its founding members include Morgan Leichter-Saxby, Suzanna Law, Sharon Unis, Anna Housley Juster, Daniel Bigler and Erin Davis.^[5] Pop-up Adventure play held its first pop-up adventure playground in New York City in 2010.^[6] There have since been over 300 Pop-Ups in more than 25 countries.^[7]

Programs

Pop-Up Adventure Play advocates for "child-directed, open-ended play," hosts pop-up adventure playgrounds, provides Playwork training and pop-up play support and free resources to other play organizations worldwide.^[8][9]

Pop-Up Adventure Play has held pop-ups in McCarren Park, in Brooklyn,^[10] Central Park and other parks in New York City,^[11] Northampton, Massachusetts,^[12] Port Clinton, Ohio,^[13] Largo, Florida,^[14] Santa Clarita, California,^[15] Missoula, Montana,^[16] and elsewhere.^[17] Pop-Up Adventure Play also opened a free "Pop-Up Play Shop" in Cardiff, Wales, where children could play with recycled materials.^[18]

See also

• Adventure playground
• Playwork