What's New:

Latest Update: See the Website of the Friends of International Children's Park & Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation

3/3/2012 GRAND RE-OPENING CELEBRATION! 11am to 1pm in the park! [Photos]

9/21/2011"International Children's Park Closed for Renovation Until Early 2012," by Tammy Chang, in International Examiner.

7/7/2010 "A Children's Park Finds Meaning in Its Legacy," by Amy Huang, in International Examiner.

9/16/2009 "Child's Play," by Liana Woo and Monica Le, in International Examiner.

11/2008 Friends of International Children's Park seeks a landscape architecture firm for detailed design of the park. [Download the Request for Qualifications]

11/2008 Seattle voters passed Parks and Green Space Levy that allocates $500,000 for renovating the International Children's Park!

9/2008 Friends of International Children's Park receives another Small and Simple Project Fund grant from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods to develop the detailed design for renovating the park.

4/2008 Project Report available for download: The Friends of International Children’s Park invites you to review the proposed design alternatives produced jointly by students from the WILD Youth Program and Department of Landscape Architecture at University of Washington. Supported with a Small and Simple grant from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, the project is the initial phase of a long-term effort to improve the park. The proposed design will address the current issues facing the park including safety and visibility, multi-generational uses, and enhanced play area. Your input will help us design a better park for the neighborhood.

Located in the Chinatown-International District, the International Children’s Park is one of three public parks developed in the 1970s in the district as results of community activism for improving the blighted neighborhood. The park has provided a much needed open space for recreation and gathering in a dense inner-city neighborhood. However, in recent years, the park has suffered from lack of use by local residents despite the expressed desire for more open space in the neighborhood. Factors such as poor visibility into the park and lack of flexbility for programming have often been mentioned by people who are familiar with the conditions of the park. Working with the Friends of International Children’s Park (FICP) and other community partners, the goal of this studio is to assist the community stakeholders in bringing people (childrens, adults, residents, and visitors alike) back to the park. The design and community process for improving the park is funded by the Neighborhood Matching Fund of the City of Seattle, awarded to the FICP. The products of this studio contribute directly to the ongoing planning and improvement of the park.

[graphics: kuang-ting huang + jeff hou]