Children's Environments
For more than 25 years, MIG has specialized in the planning, design, and management of children’s environments and programs. MIG has researched and documented how appropriate design and programming can support the developmental and educational needs of children from zoos to schools. MIG regularly collaborates with professionals in education, recreation, public health, and law enforcement; and with other organizations concerned with the welfare of children and youth.
Featured Projects
MIG designed a new 50,000-square foot children’s play area for Cisco Systems with six different age-appropriate settings.
MIG developed a series of childcare center prototypes for the largest employer-provider of childcare in the world—the U.S. Army.
MIG developed prototypical and custom-designed childcare centers nationwide for the General Services Administration.
MIG developed an innovative new outdoor learning environment that meets the needs of various age groups at a new childcare center in San Francisco.
This artful garden integrates key elements of the Sonoma winemaking landscape with water features, shade structures and interactive play elements.
MIG designed the fourth floor healing garden on the roof outside the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) floor of the Comer's Children's Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.
MIG designed and oversaw the construction of this unique outdoor learning environment that balances child development, recreation, landscape architecture, and education.
MIG designed a new Outdoor Science Park to support the programs of The Science Factory Children’s Museum & Planetarium.
MIG worked collaboratively with museum staff, community groups, Indianapolis Greenways, and the City to develop a master plan for a 100-acre Art and Nature Park.
MIG designed three new exhibits and a sign system for Habitat Park—a two-acre outdoor space at The Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago.
MIG developed the design program and master plan for an outdoor play and learning area.
MIG designed a desert-themed children’s play area for the town center of a new development in Scottsdale, Arizona.
MIG designed an award-winning themed play area for Howarth Park—a 152-acre community park in Santa Rosa—that would be particularly challenging for young people with and without disabilities.
MIG is working with Denver Parks and Recreation to develop an innovative planning model and comprehensive strategy to create the first citywide play master plan in the country.
MIG help to transform and enliven one of the oldest play areas in the United States in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
The award-winning PLAY FOR ALL guidelines has become the industry standard for all planners, designers and manager of accessible and inclusive outdoor play settings.
MIG is renovating four parks and master planning a new sports complex and civic center for the City of Indio.
MIG designed three new exhibits and a sign system for Habitat Park—a two-acre outdoor space at The Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago.
MIG created an award-winning, universally designed children's environment located along the Santa Barbara beachfront.
MIG helped to create an imaginative environment that reflects the site's agricultural history at Jurgens Park in Tualatin, Oregon.
MIG is revising and expanding the Master Plan for the new “Destination for Discovery” at the Tamarack Nature Center.
Innovative play area designed to provide creative and active play opportunities for children with and without disabilities.
MIG's design for this award-winning community park in Tualatin, Oregon provides a variety of recreation experiences for people and children of all abilities.
MIG developed a master plan for Seven Hills School that considered sustainable design of the facilities while responding to school needs.
MIG designed a shared campus for two new elementary schools in Oakland, California.
MIG designed and developed the master plan and construction documents for this joint use school and park in Glendale, California.
MIG designed a rich variety of outdoor spaces where students at the International School of Beijing can play, explore and learn.
MIG developed a complex outdoor learning environment serving over 800 early childhood and elementary school students in Taipei, Taiwan.
MIG, in collaboration with an architectural firm, designed a new campus for St. Coletta of Greater Washington, an independent non-profit school for youth ages eight to twenty-two with moderate to severe mental retardation, autism and secondary disabilities.
MIG designed and oversaw the construction of this unique outdoor learning environment that balances child development, recreation, landscape architecture, and education.
In collaboration with exhibit designers and a local architect, MIG designed the “Play Park,” a new interactive children’s area for the Jacksonville Zoological Gardens.
The San Antonio Zoological Society worked with MIG to develop an early childhood exhibit in an effort to provide a special place to serve families with young children.
MIG created a series of interpretive play areas based on the behaviors and habits of animals for the Oakland Children's Zoo.
MIG designed this family-centered “adventure and discovery landscape” that helps children and adults develop a caring attitude towards animals and nature.
MIG helped the Toledo Zoo develop a state-of-the-art, multimillion dollar children's zoo.
The Condor Discovery Room is an interactive and immersive adventure play experience that explores the life and survival of the California Condor.
The new Children’s Zoo provides a positive, fun, authentic experience that connects children and their parents to nature while cultivating a caring attitude toward animals and their habitats so they will become stewards of the earth.
