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
Go wild, Oregon child: nature-based play areas are pulling kids back outside
Design Firms / Collectives:
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