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To encourage the use of public spaces it is important that we improve the accessibility of spaces and locations. One way to do this is by making public transport more attractive. Here are some great examples of bus stops where waiting times are amusing and entertaining: Singapore, London, Baltimore, Richmond, Istanbul and Sopot.
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Playable City 2016
Applications for the Playable City Award 2016 are now open
Co-Creating Playable Street Furniture To Bring Play + Exercise To The Sidewalk
Those Swiss know how to make a good public space!
(Location: Melide, Lugano, Switzerland)
First photo by Swiss&play. Second and third by Gerben Helleman.
Starting tomorrow, the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in the Netherlands. It will be held in four cities on unique locations. Temporary stadiums are built in special public spaces: - Apeldoorn: Market Square in the city centre. - Amsterdam: Dam Square, in front of the Royal Palace in the centre of the city - The Hague: an unique floating stadium will be built on the Hofvijver pond in front of the Dutch parliament buildings and a training facility in front of cityhall. - Rotterdam: Alongside cruise ship ‘SS Rotterdam’. The former flagship of the Holland-America overseas route will provide facilities such as a media centre, hospitality and overnight accommodation for players and special guests.
Photo’s by Gerben Helleman, Hans den Oudendammer, WK Beachvolleybal
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Hybrid Play
Play smartphone games using the playground as control interface
Hybrid Play promotes outdoor physical playing, verbal communication and team relationships.
Do you believe that smart ideas can turn the city into a better place? Then watch this great video! A dancing traffic light that makes people wait and watch rather than walk through the red light. The dancing is made real-time by other people nearby. The result: more safety and more fun.
EXHIBITION
Playgrounds. Reinventing the Square
Madrid (April 30 – September 22, 2014 / Sabatini Building, Floor 1)
Through a selection of works from different time periods and in different mediums (paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, photographs, archive devices…), this exhibition analyses the socialising, transgressive and political potential of play when it appears linked to public space. The premise of Playgrounds is twofold: on one side, the popular tradition of carnival shows how the possibility of using recreational logic to subvert, reinvent and transcend exists, if only temporarily. On the other side, there has been two fundamental constants in utopian imagery throughout history: the vindication of the need for free time (countering work time, productive time) and the acknowledged existence of a community of shared property, with a main sphere of materialisation in public space.
The historical-artistic approach to the political and collective dimension of spaces of play, on view in this exhibition, gets under way in the second half of the 19th century, a time that signals the start of the process of free time becoming consumption time; a process that threw the concept of public space into crisis as it started to be conceived not only as an element for exercising (political) control, but also one for financial gain. Thus, cities started to become the objects of rational and utilitarian planning, where the field of architecture was redefined, providing spaces for play with new values, built as one of the key points of the modern ideology of the public.
IMAGE: Palle Nielsen, A group of activists from different organisations in Denmark cleared a backyard in Stengade 52 in the area Nørrebro in Copenhagen the 31 of March 1968 and build a playground for the children instead. This was done to create attention of the lack of playgrounds as well as an overall redevelopment of the area. © VEGAP, Madrid, 2014 © PETERSEN ERIK / Polfoto
