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Slide, Color Berlin 2, Matthias Heiderich
Wow, I'm overwhelmed by your responses to the call for Playscapes correspondents! Keep them coming...this is going to be awesome. Very thankful. Happy American Thanksgiving, and enjoy this...
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Fairlop Waters Natural Playground, FoRM Associates, Redbridge, London, 2010
Given a generous 4 hectare footprint within a country park, London based FoRM Associates, in collaboration with the artists Olivia Fink and Stephen Shiell, created a series of linked natural play...
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The Playscapes of Bridget Beck, Minnesota USA
Sculptor Bridget Beck makes public artwork embedded with collaboration and narration--pieces that don't just derive from playgrounds but actually are playgrounds. She created two large-scale pieces for...
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The Playscapes of Holger Kalberg
Structure by Holger Kalberg, via the Monte Clark GalleryI want to thank all of you who have applied for a Playscapes correspondent post! I'm humbled by your eminent qualifications, your fantastic...
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Chop-Stick, VisionDesign, Indianapolis, USA, 2012
Playscapes correspondent applicant Sarah Carrier sent this project to me amongst the things she is interested in corresponding about, and I just couldn't wait to share it! Stockholm-based...
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Modernists at Play
It has been hard to even think about posting happy-places-for-children lately. But Paul at Metropolis Magazine has sent me a link to a lovely article there called 'Modernists at Play'. They got in...
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Navigating Dreams, Beam Camp and Matthew Springett Associates, Strafford New...
To start off your playground dreams for 2013, a starry-eyed project by Matthew Springett Associates of London inspired by a quote from Gabriel Garcia Marquez' 'Light is like Water': “The boys,...
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Beetsplein Playground, NL Architects and DS Landschaparchitecten, Dordrecht...
Another playscape I'm thinking about going into the New Year is the Beetsplein playground by NL Architects in conjunction with DS Landschapsarchitecten. (NL Architects also designed the WOS 8...
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MoMA Playground Symposium talks are online!
And speaking of MoMA, I've been remiss in letting you know that all the talks from the Playground Symposium, "The Child in the City of Play" are available online.It's a long series to sit through, so...
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London Open for Play talks are online!
I have been even more remiss in letting you know that the talks from the London Open for Play event back in September (where has the time gone?) are online courtesy of Fergus Carnegie who runs the...
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Merging Path and Playground
One of the common threads I pulled in both the London and New York events was this idea of merging the playground with the city itself. This is particularly interesting in thinking about making play...
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Playscapes at IDS13, Toronto Jan 24-27!
There is perhaps no more complete merger of path and play than the riotous waterfront wavedecks in Toronto, also by West8 (below), and I'll be visiting them again whilst in Toronto this Thursday...
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The 'Green Wave' Slide, Malmö Sweden, Anders Dahlbäck, 2012
Photo: Anders DahlbäckPhoto: Anders Dahlbäckphoto: Anders DahlbäckPhoto: CorocordUPDATES: Ander Dahlbäck, landscape architect for the city of Malmö has been in touch with additional information...
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Early Edible Schoolyards and Loose Parts Play
I don't talk much about the Edible Schoolyard movement on the blog, thought it has obvious and strong overlaps with the Natural Playground movement (yes, there is definitely enough momentum in North...
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(Warning: no splashy playground images today)I discovered early on that I could either read other people’s blogs, or write my own, but there wasn’t time for both. So I kept writing, and maybe that...
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Whee....2 million page views!
And sometime while I was not-posting the counter quietly ticked across 2 million. Thanks, and Happy Valentine's Day to you, too!I'll be back on Monday with more great playgrounds.
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Children's Hospital Ambulance Playground, Sakaramenta, Malawi, 2012
We've talked before about 'real stuff on the playground'--repurposing items like train cars and jet planes--that was once a common playground practice but has fallen out of favor, at least in the...
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Consulting Children in Playground Design: Hart's Ladder of Participation
image from a delightful review of the playgrounds of Paris' Jardin des Tuileries...note the lack of railings!A topic that came up at London Open for Play (and which is now the subject of discussion...
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Slides of Gothenburg, Sweden
Fish slide at the Gothenburg Horticultural Society PlaygroundTunnel slide at Plitka Park, which is also home to the Monstrum whale playgroundCreative, localized slides in Gothenburg, Sweden via the...
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Play Notes (to be an occasional weekend-ish feature of Playscapes)
The Child and Nature Network is looking for a new executive director... if you're passionate about nature-based play, this might be a great fit for you!The lovely folks at Thoughtbarn have been...
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