Future Public Play: Archive

Research trip (22-28) Barcelona-Paris-Stockholm

In “Ground-up city play” book, the author described Barcelona and Paris as the cities that Play has been successfully embedded into the landscape. So I set up a rough plan and went there during 22-28 Feb to find out ….. http://picasaweb.google.com/ruedeeAtWork/BarcelonaParis02?feat=directlink - to be continued…

Mar 2nd

The World is my Playground

Another interesting project on public play that completed in 2005 by design studio Döll and architecture historian Liane Lefaivre: http://www.skor.nl/artefact-1357-en.html

Feb 13th

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Street art 01 →

From Scott Burnham street art Flickr set

Feb 13th

Urban play Amsterdam

Scott Burnham + Droog + city of Amsterdam = Cycle - Recycle -Cycle : an urban play event that explores open approaches to design and creativity in the city by encouraged the residents to participate in the city they share. More picture from : http://www.flickr.com/groups/exda2008/pool

Feb 13th

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Book : Installation by Architects

Installations by Architects: Experiments in Building and Design, by Sarah Bonnemaison and Ronit Eisenbach From We-Make-Money-Not-Art book review http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/10/book-review-installations-by-a.php …..Examples on how an installation could be used to engage the public into a discussion around the issues that concern them. Public Space offers citizens...

Feb 12th

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Book : Ground up city play

Ground-up City. Play as a Design Tool, edited by Liane Lefaivre and Döll You could read more reviews from We-Make-Money-Not-Art http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/02/010-publishers-say-groundup-ci.php …. From traditional playground to an urban golf and an installation piece, this book provide an interesting introduction, insight and case studies on public space and play...

Feb 12th

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BY DAVE VONDLE, IDEO labs http://labs.ideo.com/2009/08/19/glass-block-led-wall-display From the link above you could see the working progress and also the source code.

Feb 12th

Interesting artist : D.Billy

Visit his website : http://dbilly.com/home.html

Feb 9th

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UrbanScreens Festival 2008 in Melbourne Public Playing combines mobile, online and out-of-home media to enable big screen interactive games that enliven large spaces and events. Public Playing became part of the multimedia program at the UrbanScreens Festival 2008 in Melbourne. The interactive game RaveSnake, with up to 7 players controlled via their mobile phone, was displayed multiple times...

Feb 9th

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Feb 9th

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Playful Places

Bruno Taylor : Städte zu Kinderspielplätze “Playful Places“ “71% of adults used to play on the streets when they were young. 21% of children do so now. Are we designing children and play out of the public realm? This project is a study into different ways of bringing play back into public space. It focuses on ways of incorporating incidental play in the public realm by not so much as...

Feb 9th

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Brenda Laurel on games for girls

Feb 9th

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Stuart Brown says play is more than fun

Feb 8th