Clay Playground. Sodas2123
In today’s context, as traditional earthen architecture is disappearing from architectural vocabulary and practice, and urban development has become inseparable from concrete, plastics and other carbon- and petroleum-intensive materials, Clay Playground invites us to rediscover clay as a tool for building and for play.
Clay Playground was created using a hand-pressed mixture of unfired clay, sand, lime, gravel, and rammed earth. The construction process became an opportunity for an invited team of architects and students to gain hands-on experience with this technique. Working in consultation with international specialists, the playground was developed through practical workshops involving formwork tests, material recipe experiments, and on-site problem solving.
The Clay Playground marked a new direction for the cultural complex SODAS 2123 and its educational projects—a series of seasonal play structures and play-related programs curated by Vilius Vaitiekūnas. Over the next two years, temporary installations will offer new perspectives on play environments, where through touch, exploration, and experimentation children will form their own relationship with the world they inherit.
Creators of the sculptural installation:
Mantas Peteraitis, Kamilė Vasiliauskaitė, Aistė Gaidilionytė
Creative collaborators:
Emilija Kazakevičiūtė, Otilija Ieva Končiūtė, Svetlana Zobnina, Paulius Bogavičius, Radvilė Šapranauskaitė, Gabija Adelė Mandeikaitė, Ignas Uleckas, Matas Trimonis
Curator: Vilius Vaitiekūnas
Clay technique consultant: Gabrielė Šimkutė
Project manager: Lina Rukevičiūtė
Coordinator: Gabija Stašinskaitė
Communications coordinator: Gustė Grigaliūtė
Language editor and translator: Alexandra Bondarev
Graphic design: Daniil Lapickij
Organizer: SODAS 2123 cultural complex
Partners: Vilnius Academy of Arts, Moline, Akee
The activities of SODAS 2123 are funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and the Vilnius City Municipality.
Documentation of the public programs accompanying Clay Playground:
