playground

  • documentation,  playground

    On the act of sweeping

    This post juxtaposes two pieces of writing. On the left is a piece of pedagogical narration (also referred to as pedagogical or educational documentation), a practice inspired by the work of educational institutions…

  • pedagogy,  playground,  presentation,  video

    Speculative

    Within this project, the playground design was being imagined as an ongoing material-discursive practice between human and nonhuman actants. The collaborators wanted to trouble the idea that playgrounds are exclusively for humans. As…

  • 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…

  • playground

    Returning to the fence line

    “I started sketching what is far away but then I realized all I could see was the fence…” – Educator S. Lesley Instone (1999) invites us to consider the playground fence an active…

  • playground

    Girl on the Monkey Bars

    There is a story about the miners at the Arctic Circle that Kathleen Stewart (2007) tells. The men are putting out cigarettes, every one they smoke, on the backs of their hands. The…

  • playground

    Maintenance as Care 

    This entry was written by The Ediths (Mindy Blaise, Jane Merewether, and Jo Pollitt) and inspired by Tatiana Zakharova’s Ediths Roundtable Series 2021 presentation, ‘Sweet, Sweet Sweaty Play’. It is being reposted from the Common Worlds…

  • Play,  playground,  publications

    Sweet Sweaty Play

    The following is an excerpt from Sweet Sweaty Play, published in PNO Magazine [3] in June 2021. Please click below to read the article in its entirety. Zakharova, T. (2021, June). Sweet Sweaty…