Initial Thoughts

I am interested in studying all of the above topics. Right now, what I am the most interested in is playgrounds (expansively). How do urban planners, the public, the city, the educator, the parent, the artist, the passer-by think abut and use playgrounds? Who are the serving? What space do playgrounds play in education? What is the connection between public programming and playgrounds? How do playgrounds and museums interact? How to playgrounds and parks interact?

Playground intersect with a lot of topics that I am interested in:

• Education

  • Experiential Learning

• Environmental Design

• Access to

• Urban Planning

  • Where do they go?

  • Who decides?

  • Who do they serve?

• Public Space

  • Public Funding

• Tactile

• Interactive Design (with a purpose)

  • What is that purpose?

    • Entertainment

    • Education

    • Play

    • Urban need

• Design of

• Playground materials

• Utopia

  • Artists designed playgrounds

• How about non-urban playgrounds?

• Museums

• Public Programming

• Mobile Education Centers

Books, Articles, Recourses for Study:

• Delirious New York - Rem Koolhaas

• R. Buckminster Fuller Pattern-Thinking - Daniel López-Pérez

• The Power Broker - Rober A. Caro

• The Participatory Museum - Nina Simon

• Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century - Robert Fishman

• The Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard

• The Experience of Place - Tony Hiss

• Play: How it shapes the brain, opens the imagination, and invigorates the soul - Stuart Brown

• The Overprotected Kid - Hanna Rosin

• At Play in the Fields of the Bored - John King

• Holly Gramazio - http://www.hollygramazio.net/ and http://mathesonmarcault.com/

• Blast Theory

• Invisible Playground

• Come Out & Play

• https://www.play-ground.nyc/

• Kaboom

• Imagination Playground

• Playable City

• The Poetics of Security: Skateboarding, Urban Design, and the New Public Space - Ocean Howell

Thanks to Greg Trefry and Larry Friedman for helping to create this list of recourses for further research!

P.s. As needed, will be posting my notebook pages, because this is really where I do my thinking!