playing in or out
new exhibition opening 31.03 at the museum of childhood about the change in children's play in the past 50 years.

http://www.museumofchildhood.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions-and-displays/playing-in-or-out

some peculiar russian playgrounds via englishrussia

Bifo: After the Future

recent tests from around clapton

bringing bridleway childhood favourites such as the proludic hip-hop and rock n bowl spinner

submitted by joe bullock

images produced directly interacting with playground surfaces and devices.
one sliding down a tube, the other sitting on special surfacing material.

negative scan of dirt traces on printer paper

Gibst du mir Steine, geb ich dir Sand.
Gibst du mir Wasser, rühr ich den Kalk.
Gibst du mir Wasser, rühr ich den Kalk.
Wir bauen eine neue Stadt.

Schau ich dich an.
Gibst du mir Steine, geb ich dir Sand.
Gibst du mir Wasser, rühr ich den Kalk.
Wir bauen eine neue Stadt.

brueghel's children's games and bruce van patter's modern interpretation

"designing for play" 2001

a climbing apparatus designed to provide a similar experience to climbing a tree

le corbusier rooftop playground on top of marseilles block of flats

a playground in brooklyn, new york reminiscent of stonehenge or the berlin holocaust memorial

playground and activities for disabled children

building playground - skrammellegeplads
copenhagen-emcrup, denmark

using building materials to encourage children's constructional activities. built in 1943 on the initiative of a builders co-operative. 70 000 sq ft, surrounded by a 6ft dam of earth planted with rose bushes. about 100 little "houses" built by the children.

a community centre and open air reading at the library

erecting a playground

"active democracy can be realised similar to the unpaid labour of mountain peasants"