Coffeeshop + Playscape coming soon

Mudland is an indoor playscape for children, using natural materials, surprising design, and featuring changing play installations.

It will feature a futuristic terrain with dirt and a stream, and natural materials to play with indoors. We'll have delicious coffee and snacks, a cozy reading nook, and an inviting play landscape for crawling babies. There will be an area for changing play installations designed by artists. MUDLAND is a cross between a design-y café, a nature play area, and an interactive art museum for children.

MUDLAND is coming soon to Portland, Oregon.

Katie Shook

Mudland Director

Katie is a mom and artist based in Portland. Katie has been fascinated with the Adventure Play movement since her own childhood, and is in the process of getting playworker certification. She is part of the group Portland Free Play, hosting pop-up play events.

Katie’s vision for MUDLAND sprang from a desire to meet other parents, hang out, drink coffee or work, while kids could play in the dirt. This mud-play cafe is the natural outcome, a place where kids can play as they wish, and parents can leave the mess for us to clean up! We hope that the area for changing play installations will be a testing ground for new play design.

Christina Frank & Todd Isaacs

Design Team

Christina and Todd are the design brains behind MUDLAND. A stellar couple, these two have the sensibility, skills and passion to make a hairbrained vision come to life!

Christina is a landscape designer, specializing in play design. She is taking on the design challenge of making play with dirt and water work indoors. Todd is part of the radical building studio Spacecraft and is manning the retro-futuristic buildout of our playspace.