design

  • art,  design

    Beauty, aesthetics and hurt

    “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” ― William Goldman, William Goldman: Four Screenplays with Essays, 2000 In 2000, artist Rachel Whiteread’s Holocaust Memorial was unveiled in Vienna, Austria.…

  • design

    Design: process, politics, aesthetics

    The typical design process is linear: information is gathered, design is developed, it’s implemented and we are done. The extractive nature of this design process is colonial in nature. This is how Bryan…

  • art,  design,  playground

    The art of broom and rust

    This proposal comes from the need to address, on one hand, an anticipated maintenance concern around the sand spilling onto the concrete patio, and, on the other hand, the desire to bring an…

  • design,  stones

    Design as a consequence of stones

    As we prepare to invite rocks into our playground, I think of the ease with which we make design decisions, following the same old patterns we’ve seen elsewhere: the semi-circle of armour stones…

  • design,  Play,  playground

    Dis/Comfort

    Some years ago, on her blog Feminist Killjoys (as well as in her book Queer Phenomenology (2004), Sarah Ahmed wrote about comfort, in the context of thinking about racism and whiteness and heterosexuality…