Designing for Play

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Routledge, 2018 M12 13 - 276 páginas

This title was first published in 2001. Architects, landscape designers, builders, gardeners and teachers have all at some time been called upon to design a play area. Unfortunately, this diversity has not resulted in a similar diversity of design solutions for this very problematic task. Despite a proliferation of "how to" books on this subject, playgrounds have remained virtually the same throughout the world since their creation over a century ago.
This is not a "how to" design book. Instead, based on thirty years experience as a specialist play area designer, Barbara Hendricks details a radically new approach, applying cutting-edge thinking from child development and child psychology to find innovative design solutions, challenging the established notions of play provision. Covering key sociological, public policy, environmental and design issues, this book provides designers with an exploration of, and guide to, designing from a "child's eye" view of the world.
Beautifully crafted and copiously illustrated with numerous examples of recently designed playgrounds, this book is not only stimulating and informative, but fun to read and seriously playful in itself.

 

Contenido

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Designing for Play
People Play
History of the Play Yard not a design story
Design and Aesthetics in relationship to play
Societys Criteria
Childrens Criteria
Play Yards with Early Childhood Institutions
Play Areas at Public Parks unsupervised
Designing for Play at School
Green Children and other Trends in Playgrounds
Magic in the Play Area
Playing with the Future
Guidelines for Layout of Playgrounds
Index

Designers Criteria
A Balancing Act putting it all together

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Barbara Hedricks

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