New York City’s Governors’ Island has become a slate for designing the park that revolutionizes the collective concept of playgrounds and parks. For many decades the design psychology has been one of paranoia and protection, as we explored in Yannick Lejacq’s history and future of New York City playgrounds and our Public Play issue. The New Yorker reports that over on the island, architects are taking after the egalitarian play of Europe’s parks, spaces whose virtues of design disarm its visitors and protect by way of play. “People spend several hours here” on the weekends, says Leslie Koch, president of…