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Announcements & Writings

Risk-benefit Assessment Form »

The form, with its introductory notes, aims to assist play providers undertake risk-benefit assessments as recommended in ‘Managing Risk in Play Provision: implementation guide’. Its substantive purpose is to prompt and support a more mature, reasoned and reasonable attitude to risk in play.

Slow Build for Playscapes by Grant Lambie »

Through the 20th Century, social philosophers from Alvin Toffler1 to Paul Virilio2 write about ‘the speed of change’ having negative effects on our social fabric, including child development. With the advent of the Slow Movement’s reaction to speed, can this be translated into playscape design?

Encounters with reality – creating a shared, playable public realm »

An interview with Liz Kessler, former Urban Designer with EC1 New Deal for Communities (NDC).

"People talk a lot about ‘home zone’s and about making streets for play, but for me, the top priority is making all estates home zones so that all areas in estates become safe."
 

 
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