Our project group worked with the Duang Prateep Foundation in using community involvement to recommend a design and maintenance plan for a playground in the Klong Toey slum in Bangkok, Thailand. Furthermore, we developed a reproducible design process intended to serve as a model for other low-income communities, empowering them to design their own low-cost playgrounds. To achieve our goals, we evaluated possible locations, identified material resources, developed a playground layout using community involvement, developed a maintenance plan, and documented a reproducible design process in the form of a manual.

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Creator

• Byrne, Matthew Carson
• Boucher, Luke L.
• Bida, Oljeta
• Sexton, Jessica Rosemarie

Subject

• Environment
• Community
• Infrastructure

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 03D015I

Keyword

• Community development
• Open spaces

Advisor

• Vaz, Rick
• Demetry, Chrysanthe

Year

• 2003

Center

• Bangkok, Thailand Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Duang Prateep Foundation

Date created

• 2003-01-01

Location

• Bangkok

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright