playground
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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…
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Misreading stories about playgrounds
Tonight, I want to take a text into a territory of purposeful misreading. I want to unname a playground, messily playing and breaking apart a construction that seem too solid in its ability…
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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…
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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…
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Sketching as a method of pedagogical documentation
Preamble: Although the terms “drawing” and “sketching” are often used interchangingly (Hoffmann, 2019), I have chosen the word “sketching” to indicate as work preliminary to a drawing; a draft, a visualized thinking process.…
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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…
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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…
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Thinking of throwtogetherness of space through design
How might we put design (of playground) in direct conversation with pedagogy? Here, working with Doreen Massey’s theorization of place, I propose a physical landscape feature as manifestation of what Massey (2005/2015) calls…
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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…
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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…