One of the comments about the “House on a Hill” playscape from Germany was that it didn’t meet US safety standards. Which of course is true, and points to the dramatically different perspective on what play spaces should do and be, and on the place of risk and safety within that, in those two countries. So behold: the difference between a random google image search for ‘playground’, and one for ‘spielplatz’ (German for playground). Spielplatz has more hills, more water, more wood (less plastic), more things that look dangerous. Telling, huh?
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