Playground around and around
Good Magazine is covering education in their latest issue. They have a series of articles on the decline and current reinvention of playgrounds. There’s a lot of renewed buzz around play and its role in the health and cognitive development of kids. The conversations seem to be shifting away from simply advocating the basic need for play, to discussing the quality and context of play.
Designers are addressing play as an introduction to risk taking, creativity and reuse and moving away from the social and emotional trends that were so dominant in the last centurty.
Play as a path to activism instead of as a salve for consensus.
You can read the articles here, and also check out KaBoom, a non-profit that helps people bring playgrounds to their communities.
