Playground Design 101: Outdoor Lecture & Sketch with Playground Designer

✨ Playground Design 101: An Interactive Tour & Sketch Night with Austin Playground Designer Diana Molina✨

Ever wondered what goes into designing Austin’s many whimsical, adorable playgrounds? And how designers balance fun, creativity, and safety to come up with new ways to play?

Join us this Friday for a tour of Alliance Children’s Garden led by the artist who designed it! Diana Molina! RSVP here.

After the lecture, we’ll have a chance to play on the playgrounds and draw the grounds! There will be plenty of markers available for all, but you may want to bring a sketchbook 🙂 We’ll also provide nametags for easier socializing 🖍️💖🎨

Come join our nonprofit arts & humanities club to learn more about what makes Austin’s public grounds so lovely and fun!

✨ Your Hosts ✨

Your hosts for this event will be Diana Molina and Rachel Summer Cheong. Diana Molina is a designer on a mission: to create iconic fun spaces that resonate with the heart of a community. Her role combines concept creation, project coordination, communication, and a deep dedication to nature-based play. Highlighting health and wellness, her approach to design is both consultative and collaborative, ensuring each project reflects the unique spirit and needs of its environment. Rachel is a local artist who runs the group Difficult Friends. Read more about us in the slides below 🙂

✨ About Us ✨

This event series is a project by Difficult Friends, a non-profit Austin arts & humanities club organizing free events for the public. 501(c)(3) baby!!! https://www.instagram.com/difficultfriends/ We empower young Austinites to tackle Difficult ideas and projects. Our core values are: creative growth, intellectual challenge, human connection, and civic imagination. Our events are designed as fun intellectual workouts and creative experiments. We host workshops and discussions that push Austin residents to think harder thoughts, make cooler stuff, and connect more deeply across their human differences. Meaning is Difficult! Embrace the Difficult!

🌈✨ Statement of Welcome & Inclusivity ✨

🌈 Difficult Friends is an inclusive community space, and we particularly seek to protect and welcome our LGBTQIA+, queer, transgender, and nonbinary members. Event attendees may be asked to share their preferred pronouns and will be asked to respect the preferred pronouns shared by other participants. Women, immigrants, people of color, religious minorities, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent folks seeking a diverse community are also especially encouraged to attend!