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Strömparken – Norrköping, Sweden – A Living Room for Fish and People
Quality playscapes, nature and post-industrial landscapes seem to be rich ingredients for playspaces. The construction of the Strömparken park started in 2012, and the park itself was inaugurated in...
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#TBT Constructive Play, c. 1917
“The value of constructive play as a factor of development is an unworked educational mine” Edgar James Swift, 1917 In Manual training — Play problems; constructive work for boys and girls based on...
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How to Engage Kids and Community in Playground Design
Paige’s Note: Playground designers often have the goal of involving the community and particularly its children into the design process. But it can be difficult to move the conversation beyond...
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Path as Play: Barnetraak, TYIN Tegnestue and Rintala Eggertsson, Gran Norway,...
I wanted to follow up on an element of Susan Solomon’s last post, the Barnetraak project of TYIN Tegnestue in collaboration with Rintala Eggertsson Architects. The playable installation was funded...
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Recycled Cardboard Elephant, Nituniyo, Valencia Spain, 2015
I’ve featured some cardboard tube constructions on the blog before, but none as delightful as this cardboard elephant dubbed “Somnis de Pes” (Dreams of Weight) and formed from 6000 recycled cardboard...
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Housekeeping Notes…
The blog is experiencing some technical instability, mostly due to the fact that it is now approaching 2000 posts and 5000 images in content, and is overtaxing its platform. An upgrade will be...
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Plethora of Play, Beacon Rise Primary and OPAL, Bristol UK
As I turn my thoughts back to playgrounds after a long focus on nanoscience, I’m contemplating the many types of play seen in this video of the exemplary set of options available at Beacon Rise...
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Art as Playscape Egon Möller-Nielsen and the Modernist Play ethic
Most playscapes in our age tend to include identical, factory made products. If you walk into a playground anywhere in the world, you can easily find playstructures made by the same manufactures, and...
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Norway’s Tarzan Playgrounds, Tom Jambor and Asbjørn Flemmen, 1982-present...
You could hardly be farther from the tropics than Norway but it’s where the ‘jungle’ or ‘Tarzan’ playground of tires and flying ropes has flourished for the past twenty-five years. Even more...
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Slottspark, Kristineberg, Stockholm, Sweden – Animals of Fun
Playspaces designed by Ole B. Nielsen and Christian Jensen, founders of Monstrum, are well known to the followers of this PlayScapes.com. Paige Johnson has written about their creations on a number of...
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