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👷🏽♀️ Adeiladu drysfa 🏗️ As part of our 75th anniversary of adventure playgrounds celebrations we built a maze! #Chwarae #Play #Wrecsam #Wrexham #Emdrup (at The Venture)
💚 lovely place . . . #copenhagen #cph #emdrup #emdrupsø #dk #nature #lifestyle
31/1.2018 - where are you...
In Singapore I used to run to the beach, where I'd seek solace in crashing waves on the breakwater. Here in Copenhagen, my evening run sometimes takes me to this tranquility. A smaller body of water but still has a great calming effect on me. #denmarklife #emdrup #nature #nofilter #reflection #igsg #singaporeanabroad (at Emdrup Sø)
The Adventure or "Junk" playgrounds that spread post-WWII in England was inspired by the Emdrup waste material playground in Denmark, opened in 1943 during the German occupation.
These adventure playgrounds contained malleable materials for children to handle in their own way, allowing for autonomy and creativity in play, in stark contrast to the "KFC" ("Kit, Fence and Carpet") playgrounds found in an overwhelmingly large proportion in current-day America.
Danish landscape architect Carl Theodor Sorenson admits, "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." (Kozlovsky, 2007:6)
via: The Architecture of Early Childhood