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the fun pool

May 6, 2013

I’ve always had trouble keeping fun to myself. I could say the same about happiness and similar happiness-related phenomena. It’s not that I don’t have fun by myself or with myself, but, even then, it doesn’t feel complete until I’ve shared it. And even then, I’m not finished with it. It’s true that I’ve spent [...]

funnius

May 3, 2013

I’ve added a new word to the lexifunnicon: funnius. I was inspired by word “scenius,” coined by Brian Eno who writes: “….So I thought that originally those few individuals who’d survived in history – in the sort-of ‘Great Man’ theory of history – they were called ‘geniuses.’ But what I thought was interesting was the fact [...]

see-saw

May 2, 2013

See the suggestively silly see saw See some even sillier see-saws in Berlin at the Potsdamer Platz’s Tilla-Durieux Park See students studying the science of sillier see-saws. “Long live the see-saw,” writes our favorite Playgroundologist, “respect their right to rise, fall and rise again.” See also Playgroundology’s Teeter-Totterus flicker gallery. via Playgroundology

Whee! again

May 1, 2013

When you find yourself in the Whee! of things, you have gone somewhere beyond yourself, joined something or body outside yourself. You are not yourself. Not just yourself. And, at the same time, you are more yourself than usual. Sitting on a swing, for example, doesn’t quite make it to Whee!land. Swing on a swing, [...]

Whee!

April 30, 2013

The best of the children’s museums are, in fact and function, playgrounds. They are invitations to whole-body, whole-mind, whole-spirit, shared engagement. They offer works of play which are as much works of art as they are works of science as they are works of collective wonder. Today, we are focusing on one such work, called [...]

Mitt Rowdy

April 29, 2013

So, here’s this game. They call it Mitt Rowdy. It’s my kind of game. Silly. Intimate. Competitive, in a loving way. No score, really. I mean, somebody wins, but that’s not the point, actually. Not a game to be taken seriously – not when you’re wearing oven mits and trying to pick up a coin [...]

the fun assumption

April 26, 2013

Suppose you supposed that the only reason birds sing was the sheer fun of singing, of having songs and the ability to give them voice. Or the fun of discovering themselves suddenly landing on a moving branch in a swaying tree in perfect balance. Or the fun of knowing that whenever the wind or whim [...]

Musical Swings again

April 25, 2013

Last year, I wrote about the many conceptual and actual delights of Tous Les Jours playful, inviting, enticing Musical Swings installation in Montreal. Today, prompted by another post in Playgroundology and the realization that this event is happening now, at Montreal’s Promenade des Artistes, from April 17 to June 2; led me to, nay, demanded that I share the [...]

high tech playgrounds

April 24, 2013

There’s a playground company called Kompan that makes things like this: They make a lot of playground things, from the conventional (playstructures and the like) to what they call the “Electronic Playground” that features devices like the Swirl (above) and the Rocky (below) And it’s these things, these Electronic Playground things that interest me the most. [...]

Sculptural playgrounds

April 23, 2013

The Sculptural Playground in Schulberg, Wiesbaden, Germany, designed by ANNABU, is one brilliant testimony to the contribution that public art has to make to public play. It invites a wide variety of play – social, physical, fantasy. It incorporates trees and a huge sand pit and provides enough space for kids who want to [...]

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