James Roche and Elise Shelley recently received third place in the Cleveland InterPLAY competition. 

The annual Cleveland Design Competition is an open, anonymous, single-stage, ideas competition founded as a tool for generating ideas around under-utilized sites and showcasing the talent of emerging designers on Cleveland's built and unbuilt environment. 

For Project 2008, interPLAY challenged entrants to propose active and passive recreation along an existing multipurpose path that connects Cleveland's west side neighborhoods to Edgewater Park and Lake Erie. Entrants were asked to design an intergenerational playscape that activates the residual space around the pathway; enhancing one of Cleveland’s few pedestrian connections to the lakefront.