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The Science of Play
Poor design and wasted funding characterize today's American playgrounds. A range of factors-including a litigious culture, overzealous safety guidelines, and an ethos of risk aversion-have created uniform and unimaginative playgrounds. These spaces fail to nurture the development of children or promote playgrounds as an active component in enlivening community space. Solomon's book demonstrates how to alter the status quo by allying data with design. Recent information from the behavioral sciences indicates that kids need to take risks; experience failure but also have a chance to succeed and master difficult tasks; learn to plan and solve problems; exercise self-control; and develop friendships. Solomon illustrates how architects and landscape architects (most of whom work in Europe and Japan) have already addressed these needs with strong, successful playground designs. These innovative spaces, many of which are more multifunctional and cost effective than traditional playgrounds, are both sustainable and welcoming. Having become vibrant hubs within their neighborhoods, these play sites are models for anyone designing or commissioning an urban area for children and their families. The Science of Play, a clarion call to use playground design to deepen the American commitment to public space, will interest architects, landscape architects, urban policy makers, city managers, local politicians, and parents.
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Metodi e strumenti a supporto del programma sperimentale \Dateci spazio\
The European Community has adopted a contractual-performance mode of managing community funds, in which the funding disbursement is contingent on the achievement of specific measured results. Among these, the \"Dateci Spazio\" Programme (literally \"Give us space\") is part of a broad process of equitable and inclusive regen-eration of urban habitats and green infra-structure, promoting the creation of play-grounds in municipalities with populations over 300,000. The paper returns applica-tion research aimed at defining a process and tools to implement this experimental Programme generating accessible, inclusive, and universal habitats. Keywords: Planning; Building process; Equitable and incluswe regeneration; Play-grounds; Green infrastructure. Per gioco si intende qualsiasi \"attivita liberamente scelta a cui si dedichino, singolarmente o in gruppo, bambini o adulti sen-za altri fini immediati che la ricreazione e lo svago\" (Treccani, 2023): appare quindi evidente che, sottraendo il bambino da ogni necessita e bisogno, il gioco debba poter avvenire in modo libero e spontaneo, non strutturato, cosi da poter stimolare il rapporto con il tempo e lo spazio.
Journal Article
Correction: Medici et al. Safety and Health Concerns for the Users of a Playground, Built with Reused Rotor Blades from a Dismantled Wind Turbine. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3626
In a few interviews after the paper’s publication, Superuse Studios declared that it would be appropriate and relevant to specify that they commissioned the initial research from where this research paper derives and that they provided a solution regarding one of the main issues after the commissioned research and before the publication of this research paper [...]
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On the playground
Playground safety rules are explained clearly, and readers are taught how to avoid dangerous equipment and irresponsible children as they play.
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Phygitar: Envisioning the Rhythmic Phygital Ecosystem in 2050
This paper imagines how we may orchestrate speed of seamlessly and seamfully fused human and digital flows to sustain in a fast-paced digital and challenged world. To design a desirable future and invent ways of bringing it about (Ackoff,1974), we embark on a time travel to a possible future world of 2050 called Phygitar, where humans, technologies, and planet Earth have synthesized into a rhythmic phygital ecosystem. Using the approaches of futures-studies, this envisioning is done to better understand concepts from 2050 and to see how we can engage with and use those effectively in 2025 for IS theory development and management practice. We use the “Avatar” movies (2009, 2022) by James Cameron as the playground of our imagination. We apply illustrative elements to depict some key characteristics and concepts from this rhythmic phygital ecosystem and to show ways of navigating through it -- and we suggest “how might we” questions for IS theorizing. We hope this will trigger the imagination of scholars of what might be out there in the next generation of post-digital IS theories rather than being rooted in the mindset of what is or what has been.
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Be safe on the playground
\"A boy teaches an alien from a planet with no gravity how to be safe on a playground\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Amusement parks, playgrounds and the equivalence principle: Physics for the whole body and a smartphone or small toys
What your body feels in swings, carousels or rollercoasters is related to the forces required to change the motion of the body. These forces can be visualised with small toys or be measured by a smartphone accelerometer, giving data that can be analysed in the physics classroom and can deepen the understanding of Newton’s laws. The embodied experiences of acceleration depend on the equivalence between inertial mass (in ma ) and gravitational mass (in mg ), which often leads to surprising consequences. This paper presents a number of examples of experiments and demonstrations that have been tested over many years, with student groups from middle school to university, where they have been found to help student connect their first-person experiences with Newton’s laws.
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