Meghan is the founder and executive director of Studio Ludo. She has a Bachelors in Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a licensed landscape architect and a certified playground safety inspector.
Her research focuses on how the design of play environments impacts physical health and social behavior, and has been presented at conferences worldwide. To date, she has collected data on over 60,000 people in 100 play environments around the world. This research informs all of her play designs. She has designed over 30 destination play environments across the US and has provided play safety and risk guidance for over 40 play installations and children’s museums around the country and world.
She is a training instructor for the Certified Playground Safety Inspector course through the National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA) and a studio professor of play and landscape design at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has been featured by The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, Curbed, Dwell, Popular Science, Landscape Architecture Magazine, and World Landscape Architecture Magazine.
