Design Blog

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behind the scenes- model making

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life size measurements of the playground (in inches)

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Lost & Found (experiment)

I had five small balls in the playground early morning at different spots, to see whether they would still be there by the end of the day. I went back later that evening to find none of the five balls in their original place. 3 of the balls were missing. 2 of the balls were scattered on the grass (as if someone had used them and then discarded them after playing). 

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Carsten Höller Creates a Playground of Choices at the Hayward

Imagine you are at a fairground. What are your feelings while waiting in line for a rollercoaster? Excitement or dread? Discomfort or pleasure? These ...

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intervention ideas

-bring a white board+markers/ drawing paper + crayons and leave it in the playground for kids to make art on. observe their artworks?

- a footprint trail of insects on white paper....(observing movement)

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Playground Tales

Listen to Playground Tales on Spotify. Playground Tales is a podcast for kids, made by students at Winters Flat Primary School, Victoria Australia.

cute stories

(real playground talks)

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Britain's brutalist playgrounds – in pictures

We’re familiar with the sight of brutalist towers in Britain, but less well known are the strange playgrounds built at the same time, with their rough surfaces and dangerous drops – now re-created at the RIBA

progress in playground designs. recreations. 1:1 models

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Earlier this year, Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art launched the Playground Project, an intriguing hands-on exhibition focused almost exclusively on play. Crowds of excited children were thrilled at the chance to run, jump, climb, and unleash their imaginations in the museum space. Aside from youngsters, there were parents, students, local residents and tourists in […]

playground & design history

interactive art project

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playground & recreation movement

staying active, working on ourselves and exercising both mentally and physically.

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Life is a playground!

“An outdoor area where children can play that usually includes special equipment (such as swings and slides).” It is a place where children come to laugh, cry, collaborate, argue, fall, rise, grow…

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random things i found on the location that seemed ‘out of place’

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initial observational sketches

meeting requirements

natural+man-made (plants&trees&animals + playground equipment)

public+private (at diff times of the day)

indoors+outdoors (the slide structure + the benches and open ground)

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rough mappin (notes on directions?)

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walking exercise?

I began by blindly taking a right at each turn but ended up walking in circles and not getting anywhere new. So I mixed up my approach and started taking an alternate left and right at every turn and ended up at the kids play area. 

I measured the area using my shoe. 

1 foot/shoe = 25cm

20m = 2000cm

20m = 80cm

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