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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Playground design"”.
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An experiment in playground design.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1967. M.C.P.
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Nature Based Playground, Design for Children with Autism
… occurs. Play environments need to be carefully designed to ensure that children are able to realize the full benefits of play. In the United States, public play areas are abundant. However, do these play areas stimulate the development of children? Have they been designed to be inclusive to …
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A Preschool Outdoor Curriculum and Playground Design, Teacher Education
… a developmentally based outdoor curriculum and playground designed for young children. The curriculum consists of an overview, objectives, curriculum methodology, playground designs and evaluation. Cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains are each included in the objectives. A curriculum …
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Young Children and Nature: Outdoor Play and Development, Experiences Fostering Environmental Consciousness, And the Implications on Playground Design
… childhood experiences outdoors. Through careful design, constructed playscapes can be greened to simulate natural playscapes. Greening is the integration of natural elements and processes in a playscape. Children’s direct social and individual experiences in nature in early to middle childhood …
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The philosophy and design of an outdoor play space for pre-elementary school children
The need to redesign the outdoor play space and related equipment at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Laboratory School, in Blacksburg, Virginia, was investigated. Under the direction of the Department of Child Development, a rigid program was created which would determine …
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Learning topology : engaging the development of spatial cognition though adpositional play
… establishes a qualitative analysis of current playground design and challenges the minimal role that playgrounds play in education, spatial cognition, and the development of a child's understanding of space. McDonalds' playgrounds were introduced in the 1970s and proliferated across the nation …
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Animated props for responsive playspaces
Playgrounds are special places within the urban landscape specially designed for children. Here, they encounter the outdoors and the physical properties of large spaces through play, which allows children to develop their physical skills, explore the natural and built environment as well as …
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A study of outdoor environments for young children: re-envisioning the child development laboratories at UIUC
… this trend, traditional research focuses on the playground redesign and safety issues with play equipment. While learning through nature has been proposed, it mainly emphasizes the positive effect of play with natural elements. With the belief that the high-quality outdoor experiences – including …
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Labyrinthos
… introduce the primary sources which motivate the design of the labyrinth. These sources contribute to an interest in the definition of paths, pattern, and networks. This interest leads to the comparison between sequential composition and random access composition. The exploration of nonlinear …
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Children's acting senses in place-making: mapping and analysing children's reflective individual and collective sensepointscapes in a primary school playground renewal co-design project with architecture students.
… also a challenge, not just for children but also design professionals and the general public more broadly. This thesis represents an in-depth enquiry into how children, aged between 7 to 12 years, viewed and interpreted some design proposals for their school play area. These proposals had been …
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Play and the handicapped child : A dissertation [Diploma in Parks and Recreation, Lincoln College]
Before beginning to look at playgrounds for the handicapped child, it is necessary to look at handicapped children in general, to see what they can gain from play, what they need from play, and how far their needs can be provided for, in spite of their handicaps. I will look firstly at what the …