Playground is inspired by the logic of dreams. In my dreams, urban spaces often connect seamlessly, forming map-like structures in which familiar environments merge into one continuous landscape. Although these spaces originate from real locations, their architecture, atmosphere, and events become increasingly surreal.

Drawing from observations of everyday urban environments, I reinterpret city imagery by introducing figures, gestures, and playful interventions that gradually transform functional infrastructure into playground-like spaces. Through these imagined interactions, ordinary structures are detached from their intended purposes and reactivated through emotion, curiosity, and play.

For example, on the M8 motorway—a space dominated by vehicles and largely absent of human presence—I placed a girl leaning against the motorway barrier, turning infrastructure into an object of play and physical interaction. Elsewhere, streetlights are embraced and activated like handheld torches, radiating light outward; wires emerging from electrical boxes grow into plant-like forms, blurring the boundary between artificial systems and organic life; and traffic lights shift into unexpected colours, disrupting their original authority and function.

Rather than physically altering the city, these interventions propose alternative ways of perceiving and emotionally inhabiting urban space. The project explores how imagination can reshape environments that are often experienced as rigid, impersonal, or purely functional, transforming them into spaces of wonder, intimacy, and possibility.