• Play

    Parts loose?

    What drives me is the urge to follow in the careful footsteps of Le Guin’s (1985) Eve and unname. We need to pull apart and critique the ways play is currently taken in…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…