Research List - Ongoing

Below is my research list including Book, Articles, Design Firms, Spaces etc, I will continually update it.

As I do research on any of these topics I will make a “Reading Notes” post.

If in Italics I have read or am reading.

Books / Excerpts:

• 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 Unschooled Mind - Howard Gardner

• Peter Gray, “Free to learn“

Articles:

• 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/

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

• The Constructivist Museum - George E. Hein

• Peter Gray, “The Play Deficit”

• Roger Hart, “Geography of Children”

• Kyung-Hee Kim, “The Creativity Crisis”

• A novel approach to interactive playgrounds: the interactive slide project

• Sonic Playgrounds: Exploring Principles and Tools for Outdoor Sonic Interaction

• Future Playgrounds Workshop

• Designing for Children's Outdoor Play

• Environment Design: strategies of Man Senda & Environment Design Institute: Playgrounds and play structure.

• Courtyard oases: ecology at the heart of the school

• Playgrounds at the crossroads: the landscape of children's play is changing as park playgrounds give way to commercial family playscapes

• Playground with a mission: landscape architects and an artist turn around an inner-city playground [Mission Hill Playground, Boston]

• Go wild, Oregon child: nature-based play areas are pulling kids back outside

• Children's play and urban playground environments: a comparison of traditional, contemporary, and adventure playground types

• Working in the margins: a nontraditional approach to the practice of landscape architecture creates a much-needed playground in a women's prison

• Turn of the century women's organizations, urban design, and the origin of the American playground movement

Design Firms / Collectives:

• Blast Theory

• Invisible Playground

• Come Out & Play

• https://www.play-ground.nyc/

• Kaboom

• Imagination Playground

• Playable City

• Tezuka Architects

• Basurama

• Monstrum

• Tres Birds - Artist-commission park design series Vail CO

Spaces:

• NYSCI Museum Playground - Queens NY

• City Museum St. Louis Missouri - Artist Bob Cassilly

• Blaxland Riverside Park - JMD Design

• Swing-Time - Höweler & Yoon Architects

• Lady Marjory Allen - Adventure Playground 

• The Lands Playground 

• European “Forest Kindergarten”

Projects:

• Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking