The Wildplace Children’s Garden
Created by Urban Discovery for the Victorian Schools Garden Program
Urban Discovery has been invited by the Nursery & Garden Industry Victoria and the Victorian Schools Garden Program to create the feature play precinct at the 2026 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show.
The Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show is the largest and oldest garden show in the Southern Hemisphere! This five-day celebration of design, nature, and innovation will attract over 100,000 visitors, global media, and top industry professionals from around the world.
Our playground, ‘The Wildplace Children’s Garden’, is a cross pollination of decades of experience, research, pedagogy, regenerative design and Indigenous knowledge and demonstrates a necessary step forward in playground design. This large, immersive garden will host hundreds of school groups and thousands of show goers throughout the event and, we hope, it will inspire a revolution in the design of playground environments.
In a hurried world, where childhood is at risk, The Wildplace is a remedy.
This garden playground showcases innovative and achievable design, education, and therapeutic solutions with one intention; excellence for children. Now and long into the future.
A cross pollination of research, pedagogy, regenerative design and Indigenous knowledges, The Wildplace illustrates a necessary step forward in the design of children's play and education spaces across all spheres of modern society.
Adults... do you remember what it was to not know? To wonder and wander. To fossick and discover, To hide and peek. To play?
Children... this place is for you, you know what to do.
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