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is essential for awakening curiosity.

PLAY

Full

speaks to expression.

Ground

holds us in relation.

Play Full Ground is a living practice exploring creativity, learning, and participation as interconnected experience.

Together, these form a living system where creativity is not an outcome, but a way of being with ideas, others, and the world.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

Play Full Ground approaches learning as an artistic and relational practice shaped by attention, inquiry, and participation.

It explores creativity as a way of understanding the world, not as a means of producing outcomes.

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The Studio

The studio is where this practice becomes lived — through time, relationships, and evolving forms of participation.

It holds the history, environment, and lived experience of an evolving practice.

Meet Mai

Play Full Ground is shaped through the artistic practice of Mai Ryuno, working at the intersection of socially engaged art, education, and relational practice.

Her practice continues to inform how this system evolves.

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Dream Lab
at Play Full Ground

Dream Lab is one expression of this larger practice — where these ideas become lived experience through creative learning with young people.

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Dream Lab at Play Full Ground


550 Lighthouse Avenue, Suite E
Monterey, CA 93940

hello@playfullground.com

Want to Dream Together?

Every meaningful project begins with a question, a conversation, or a shared dream.

Join our community of learners, families, artists, and collaborators. Receive occasional updates about Dream Lab, community projects, events, and creative explorations.

Welcome. We're glad you're here.

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@2026 Play Full Ground | Photos by Grace Khieu, Julie Chon, Brianne Hidalgo, Sheldon Chang, Moonfish Photography

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