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Issue All: Playground
Nursery school becomes an inspiring children’s adventure playground
Räuberland – Robberland at an urban children‘s day care centre (Schleizerstrasse 1, Erfurt)
Designing the garden as an educational area for children in a nursery
An exemplary observation of the Luftikus Nursery Association Parents’ Initiative (Elterninitiative Kinderhaus Luftikus e.V.) by means of the planning and design of the external grounds.
Promoting development outdoors - the Steilshooper Allee day care centre in Hamburg
Landscape architects design development opportunities for children.
Space for dreaming in the play chest
Of role play, meeting places, changes in perspective, blue tricycles and other adventures
Free areas for movement dreams/spaces for the little ones of Cologne
The KiTA RIO day care centre in the Platenstraße in Cologne: to understand the world and reconstruct for themselves how it fits together, children themselves have to be able to sense reality, comprehend events and discover relationships.
Play is vital for children
In the last 25 years in many European countries family life has undergone huge changes.
18.08.2010 - On the future of outdoor play
by Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jürgen Milchert, Dean of Studies at the Department of Agricultural Architecture, deputy dean, deputy spokesman for landscape planning courses (University of Osnabrück).
18.08.2010 - “De Holle Poarten”, a wilderness in Holland
In developing the designs, the Jürgen Bergmann Creative Wood Design has quite deliberately avoided installing a “playground” but has built it into the existing, extraordinarily exciting “Wilderness” as if it always belonged here.
18.08.2010 - The Importance of Trees
Known for its horticultural attractions Kew’s Royal Botanical Garden has a fresh and exciting addition in its midst in the form of a brand new eibe children’s play area; TreeHouse Towers.
18.08.2010 - Kulmbach invests in green spaces and playgrounds
Play is not just for children. Open-air exercise facilities have thus been created in public green spaces throughout Germany that - as ‘multigenerational playgrounds’ - have their attractions for young and old.
18.08.2010 - Exercise for everyone in a green landscape
The German town of Waiblingen makes use of a banked up terraced wall system, originally built as a noise protection system, for a generation-spanning exercise programme in the fresh air.
18.08.2010 - “Green Pearl” for the town
A friendly dragon protects Großburgwedel.
18.08.2010 - A woodland playground with a real ‘kick’
“Look – Learn – Join in”: outdoor recreational activities for young and old are the theme of the Fourth Hessen State Horticultural Show, being held this year in Bad Nauheim.
18.08.2010 - Woodland playground where seesaw and swings are things of the past
The 2010 State Horticultural Show in Hemer is an attraction for young and old. But it is the various playground facilities that exert a particular spell on the younger visitors.
18.08.2010 - Unique Park Care in Vienna
By Ronny Wolf, Managing Director IFEP.
The “Parkbetreuung” in Vienna is a leisure time offer for children and teenagers which is unique throughout Europe.
18.08.2010 - Competition for the ‘greenest’ playground
The panel of judges for the ‘Green Playground’ competition met in the premises of the ‘Die Grüne Stadt’ foundation in Düsseldorf on 24 and 25 June 2010
18.08.2010 - More green spaces mean improved quality of life
The city of the future will be green!
In the autumn of 2009, major backing was provided to the green town movement when regional government head Jürgen Büssow ruled that the ‘Die Grüne Stadt’ foundation based in Düsseldorf was to be incorporated under German Civil Law, giving the organisation recognised charitable status.
22.11.2010 - On route to a better school
Prof. Dr. Rita Süssmuth, Executive Committee President of buddY E.V., talks about the future of schools in Germany and the role of the Buddy Project.
28.12.2010 - The Commission for Observing Children’s Needs
An interview with Eckhard Pols, President of the Children’s Commission in the German Bundestag.
15.04.2011 - Plain and simple ........ wood?
“We have realised a playground over the past year in the newly built spa and wellness centre “Lido Locarno” in collaboration with the company "Moro & Moro".
15.04.2011 - Spiekeroog: car-free – but not playground-free
The dream-like island located in Lower Saxony’s Wadden Sea is a real paradise, especially for children.
15.04.2011 - 3. Playground symposium
On 24th February 2011, the 3rd Playground Symposium was held. Organised by Spielplatzmobil GmbH, the event took place under the theme: Playgrounds – equipment, planning and entertainment.
15.04.2011 - JUST IMAGINE… A NEW WAY TO PLAY!
Just launched worldwide, Playtop Street is an 11 metre by 6 metre oval area consisting of Playtop wet-pour rubber surfacing and 12 satellites. The satellites, which light up and make a series of sounds, are activated when touched by a foot or a hand and are installed with five pre-set activity games.
17.08.2011 - Spiel-Bau design celebrates its 20th anniversary
This idea came to Jürgen Schilling and Jörn Schaefer at a coincidental meeting at Brandenburg in Germany. Jürgen Schilling had the material resources and Jörn Schaefer the trade and product know-how, as he was at that time head of production for the Grünzig Company in Eystrup.
15.12.2011 - 60 years of Eibach – from Sauerland to the rest of the world
68-year-old senior director Wilfried Eibach has had an active role in the company for more than 50 years now. He gives a firsthand account of a modern company, steeped in tradition; from the exciting years of its foundation, which weren’t always “light as a spring”, to the company’s own technical competency and motorsport involvement.
Be part of our series of lectures, take part in the organisation of discussions, make new contacts and keep your finger on the pulse of the times!
12.03.2012 - Current Findings in Child Development and the Role That Playgrounds Play
Thomas R. Müller (Playground@Landscape): First of all – I see that the Kompan company is more active again in 2012!
16.04.2012 - Interesting speakers. Lively discussions. Baroque surroundings.
The first Playground@Landscape magazine playground seminar has taken place. Conclusion to begin with: Interesting speakers, lively discussions and baroque surroundings from the town of Fulda and the event hotel.
16.04.2012 - Playground meets Design
Playground@Landscape: In English and French design means "creation" or "conception", whereas the Italian disegno (English: drawing, sculpture) has the stronger meaning of a process to be tested, like the Spanish diseño.
17.10.2012 - Sparkling source of ideas for the school playground
The editors of “Playground@Landscape asked Erich Hiller Vice President of the Bundesverband Garten-, Landschafts- und Sportplatzbau e. V. (BGL) (Federal Association for Garden, Landscape and Sports Fields) and member of Ausbildungsförderwerk Garten-, Landschafts- und Sportplatzbau e. V. (AuGaLa) about the outcome of the competition held in 2011.
17.10.2012 - “Exerting yourself sensually and voluntarily”
Exercise – a law of nature, on the school playground too.
Unlike us adults, “health” or “fitness” isn’t enough of a reason for children to exercise. Children exercise because they are curious about wanting to discover their environment and, above all, because exercise is an evolutionary conditional “law of nature”.
17.10.2012 - Worlds of Exercise
Schuzlhof school playground: “BeWegte Welten” (Worlds of Exercise) on the “Am Botanischen Garten” primary school playground in Frankfurt (Oder).
The Riedbrunnen playground is located in the eastern half of the large oval underneath the viaduct, which forms the end point of the riverside promenade next to the Nagold and Waldach.
04.12.2012 - Housing association invests in playground
The technical managing director of the Stuttgart Wohnungs- und Städtebaugesellschaft (SWSG) [Living and Urban Development Association], Helmuth Caesar, is firmly convinced that: “The island settlement should become a more attractive place for families with children. To this end, it needs a playground with wonderful playground equipment.”
04.12.2012 - Adventure playground at Phoenix-See city lake
At today‘s Phoenix-See city lake in Dortmund where once stood the former steel works, Phoenix Ost, an area measuring 94 hectares – the re-natured river Emscher is now flowing again and you will find a lake measuring 24 hectares. Housing developments have been being built around the lake since 2011.
04.12.2012 - Play and communication areas for different requirements
A new, customised playground has arisen from an existing playground and separate football field including a former commercial area: The Schinkestrasse - Maybachufer playground, Berlin Neukölln.
The goal of the development fund is to improve the lives of children and youths through participation.
27.02.2013 - How do you pay for an activity trail when you’ve no money?
However, there are certain communities in which the authority personnel are facing up to the challenge and are finding ways to successfully acquire funding.
27.02.2013 - “Moved Childhood” Congress for the 8th time in Osnabruck
With 3,000 participants, they belong to the largest events on the topic of childhood, and every two years attract educational staff to Osnabruck from all over Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
27.02.2013 - Design is what makes the style, the look
Playground@Landscape: In English and French design means “creation” or “conception”, whereas the Italian disegno (English: drawing, sculpture) has the stronger meaning of a process to be tested, like the Spanish diseño.
09.04.2013 - Designing the garden as an educational area for children in a nursery
An exemplary observation of the Luftikus Nursery Association Parents’ Initiative (Elterninitiative Kinderhaus Luftikus e.V.) by means of the planning and design of the external grounds.
09.04.2013 - Free areas for movement dreams/spaces for the little ones of Cologne
The KiTA RIO day care centre in the Platenstraße in Cologne: to understand the world and reconstruct for themselves how it fits together, children themselves have to be able to sense reality, comprehend events and discover relationships.
09.04.2013 - Promoting development outdoors - the Steilshooper Allee day care centre in Hamburg
Landscape architects design development opportunities for children.
09.04.2013 - Space for dreaming in the play chest
Of role play, meeting places, changes in perspective, blue tricycles and other adventures
09.04.2013 - Play is vital for children
In the last 25 years in many European countries family life has undergone huge changes.
10.04.2013 - Nursery school becomes an inspiring children’s adventure playground
Räuberland – Robberland at an urban children‘s day care centre (Schleizerstrasse 1, Erfurt)