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Join us on the last Thursday of every month for an adults-only session of The Playground Project Melbourne.

Climb through The Brutalist Playground, slide down The Lozziwurm, explore The Ringtales Playground and enjoy an evening of child-free art and design.

The Playground Project Melbourne, curated by Gabriela Burkhalter, celebrates the history, imagination and possibility of playground design. On view at Incinerator Gallery from 28 June to 12 October 2025. 

 

Thursday, 28 August, 6pm to 8pm

Join an exclusive guided tour led by guest speaker David Kutcher from The Venny at this month’s Thursday Late.

David has served as General Manager and Board Member at The Venny Inc. for 25 years. The Venny is a supervised, free communal backyard and safe play space for 5 to 16 year-olds. It is intentionally designed to engage in risk-taking play, creativity and connectedness among young people. Established in 1981 and located in the JJ Holland Park in Kensington it is modelled on the original concept by Danish landscape architect, Carl Theodor Sørensen, who observed children preferred to play everywhere except the playgrounds that he designed and built.

Thursday, 25 September, 6pm to 8pm

Join an exclusive guided tour led by artists Mary Featherston and Emily Floyd at this month’s Thursday Late.

Designer Mary Featherston AM and artist Emily Floyd present a new iteration of their collaborative project, Round Table (2017-2025) in the Incinerator Gallery’s courtyard at part of The Playground Project Melbourne.

In dialogue with Round Table, 2017-2025 by Mary Featherston AM and Emily Floyd, currently exhibited in the Incinerator Gallery’s courtyard, Floyd re-imagines Ripple (2013-2014) as a series of screenprints in the site’s historical display. Through bold colours and abstract forms, she highlights the radical contributions of the child-care advocacy group, Community Child Care, alongside the utopian design of Marion Mahony Griffin (1871-1961), one of the first female architects of the 20th century and co-designer of the Incinerator building, who is permanently exhibited in this gallery space.