Looking for a job in play? Active Design Specialists sought for NYC!
Looking for a job in play design? The Fund for Public Health in New York City has two job openings for ACTIVE DESIGN (read “play”) SPECIALISTS who will seek to promote community health by “identifying...
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Space Age Playgrounds by Fred Schumm, Colorado Springs, 1957-1958
Fred Schumm of Colorado Springs is one of those artists I love to rediscover…largely unknown characters, generally sculptors, who constructed a few playground pieces in the exciting milieu that was...
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Winner of The Science of Play Giveaway!
And the winner is…Greg Pawlica! The random number generator at random.org picked the number 2, so it’s you, Greg…email me your postal address. And for those of you who are frustrated that amazon still...
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Immaculate Conception School Playscape, Katie Winter, New York City, 1997
I’m just back from a three-city barnstorming trip to the East Coast; many thanks to all those who participated in scintillating conversations about play and playscapes. It’s a great moment for play,...
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Model for a Slide Mantra, Isamu Noguchi, 1966-1985
I never fail to be inspired by a visit to the Noguchi Museum, and by discussions with its committed, creative staff. The collection is so broad that all of Noguchi’s play work can’t be on display at...
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Plaza Brasil Playground, Santiago Chile, Frederica Matta & Ana Maria...
In 1993, artist Frederica Matta designed a series of 22 play elements for Santiago, Chile’s Plaza Brasil, all based on the idea of Chilean identity. The city of Santiago offered spare industrial...
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Reinterpreting the Playground Climber in Timber
Playful architecture round up this week….the ‘grid’ style playground climber is a classic; I’d love to see it reinterpreted in new natural materials, ala this proposal (for a hosue) by Sou Fujimoto...
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Boernehuset Dragen, C. F. Moller, Odense Denmark, 2009
Playable roofs–really just large inclined planes–continue to be a playable-architecture design trend. This one, covered in red safety surfacing, is by C.F. Moller for a children’s school in Odense,...
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Library Slide, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea, Moon Hoon, 2013
This library slide is in a private home, the Panorama House by South Korean architect Moon Hoon, but it’s a playful idea for interior play idea easily adapted for schools or public libraries. [via...
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2014 ‘Heroes of Play’ Blocks: C. Theodor Sørensen, Junk Playgrounds
“Of all the things I have helped to realize, the junk playground is the ugliest; yet for me it is the best and most beautiful of my works”. Carl Theodor Sørensen, 1951 Just in time for the holidays,...
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Artistry and Adventure, Aldo and Theodor
One of the really interesting things to me about the contributions of Aldo van Eyck and Theodor Sørensen is that they were quite different responses…but to the same type of site, the vacant and broken...
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Bernhard Luginbühl, Brutalist Play Sculptor
Given the current penchant for hashtagged days of the week, I hereby declare this #PlaySculptureSaturday. If Swiss sculptor Bernhard Luginbühl were working today he would be tagged as #steampunk,...
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Toy Car Playground Mountain, Montsouris Park, Paris
If you haven’t been keeping up with our Playscapes correspondents lately, take some time out to do so! Eloise, Playscapes correspondent in France, has some particularly great posts lately, including a...
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Adventure and Artistry with Luckey Climbers
Those two words–adventure and artistry–capture the legacy of Tom and Spencer Luckey, too. The utterly unique, and very recognizable, Luckey climbers were an early feature here at Playscapes, back...
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New DIY Download: Cardboard Play Blocks by Tali Buchler
One of the modern expressions of C. Theodor Sørensen’s ideas of free play with junk are cardboard-based play projects. The first one of these I featured on the blog was Tali Buchler’s charming designs...
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Cardboard Labyrinth, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Art Basel 2010
One of my favorite cardboard installations is also the simplest…the “Labirinto e Grande Pozzo” made from rolls of corrugated cardboard in various states of unrolled-ness by Michelangelo Pistoletto,...
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Cardboard ArtPlay, Monash University Architecture Students, Melbourne Australia
Far more elaborate designs at ArtPlay in Melbourne, Australia, where “Each year, first-semester students in the Department of Architecture at Monash University undertake a design–make studio...
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Just a blog housekeeping note that over the next few weeks we’ll be transitioning to the mailchimp service for blog updates and emails. Due to the large size of the blog’s user list at this point, it...
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Puckelball in St. Paul, Minnesota?
Excited that there is an opportunity to have one of Johan Strom‘s great puckelball pitches here in the USA! A St. Paul Minnesota youth nonprofit organization, Joy of the People, is working to bring it...
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Buzzbench, AnneMarie van Splunter, Amsterdam, 2015
“First of all, one must choose a permanent residence for the bees, …” Virgil: Georgics IV” Playcapes’ friend AnneMarie van Splunter, whose Play Modules are a perennial favorite on the blog, begins a...
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