Reilly Bergin Wilson, with the City University of New York, will be presenting From Minneapolis to NYC: Neglected Histories of Adventure Playgrounds in the United States as part of the event ADVENTURE PLAYGROUNDS: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE.
It is scheduled for March 15, 2021 from 5:20-5:35 PM CET / 11:20-11:35 AM EST
The full event is runs 3:00p-6:00p CET and can be found live on YouTube.
Please visit this link for more details.
Reilly is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and research associate at the Children’s Environments Research Group. She was awarded a Masters by Research with Distinction in Geography from the University of Leeds for her thesis, Who Owns the Playground: Space and Power at Lollard Adventure Playground (1954-1961), funded through a US-UK Fulbright Commission University of Leeds Partnership Award. She also holds an Honors B.A. in Geography from Temple University, for which she conducted funded research in Bosnia-Herzegovina on playground privatization. Currently, Reilly is conducting archive research in attempt to construct a critical history of New York City adventure playgrounds, as well as working with a collective to open a (de)construction adventure playground in Brooklyn, NY, the first of its kind in New York City in forty years.
