The Dynamic Duo The right partner can often be hard to find…professionally speaking. When searching for the right collaborator there are many options, but there are few who… Read more »
Pipelines: A Colorful Art Installation About Conservation
Blog Category: Designer Spotlight
A Place for Play, Artistic Expression and Community in Savannah
Community-Led Change The term “creative placemaking” might not be part of most people’s everyday vocabulary, but for Erin Wessling, it is an essential component of her work. Erin… Read more »
Montreal’s Parc St. Joseph Inspires Play for All Ages
Valérie Bouré, a landscape architect for the city of Montreal and part of the three-person team behind the design of Parc St. Joseph, is riding high from two recent… Read more »
Our Crazy Maze Winners Had Fun
Pat Stout went to the 2021 ASLA conference to earn CE credits and discover new and innovative products he might include in a project someday. He didn’t expect to also… Read more »
Risky Play and the Study That Fueled a Movement
“I hate taking my kids to the playground.” That’s not something you expect to hear from a person who researches and designs playgrounds for a living. Yet there was Meghan… Read more »
Designer Spotlight: Teri Hendy on the Safety Standards that Transformed U.S. Playgrounds
Peruse the entry for Teri Hendy in the Play and Playground Encyclopedia and try not to be impressed. The Cincinnati-based design and safety consultant has advised the playground industry for… Read more »
Leadership Profile: Stephanie Perler Garst, executive director of the US Play Coalition, on raising the value of play
For many of us, the opportunity to play—to improvise and imagine, to do something for its sheer enjoyment rather than any practical purpose— may come as the exceptional moment in… Read more »
Going Deep with G Cody QJ Goldberg, Founder of Harper’s Playground
G Cody QJ Goldberg has had an interesting career, to say the least. The child of bonafide San Francisco hippies, he earned a BFA in film and television studies at… Read more »
Designer Profile: Architecture Duo Coryn Kempster and Julia Jamrozik Partner with Goric to Reimagine the Playground
Former Herzog & de Meuron architects Coryn Kempster and Julia Jamrozik started a multidisciplinary architecture practice in 2015 with the aim of bringing together their varied interests in visual arts,… Read more »
Playground in the Picturesque: The Revival of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Linear Park in Atlanta
Where to begin talking about Frederick Law Olmsted? The life and achievements of the Renaissance man revered as the “father” of landscape architecture are almost impossible to summarize succinctly. But… Read more »
Designer Profile: School Zone Institute’s Anne Taylor on Learning by Design
Around the start of the new millennium, Anne Taylor, Ph.D., the 85-year-old president of School Zone Institute (501-c-3), gave the keynote speech at a conference called Better Schools For a… Read more »
Access is Not Inclusion: The Battlecry of the Play Brigade
A little more than four years ago, when Dawn Oates took her youngest daughter, Harper, to a neighborhood playground in Boston to play with her older twin siblings, she found… Read more »
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