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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…
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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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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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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…
