Playground@Landscape

YOUR FORUM FOR PLAY, SPORTS UND LEISURE AREAS

Articles in issue 2013 - 2

Planning, Designing, Building

Nursery school becomes an inspiring children’s adventure playground

Räuberland – Robberland at an urban children‘s day care centre (Schleizerstrasse 1, Erfurt)

Playground Report

Exercise and early childhood education

By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Beudels, Prof. Dr. Klaus Fischer and Dr. Janine Stahl-von Zabern

Coverstory

Landscape designers plan Kita (child care facility) playground

Their central targets are the construction of playgrounds for the under 3's, and improved training and quality of the carers.

Planning, Designing, Building

Kick-about goals are not all the same - or - Is a kick-about goal a piece of play equipment or sports equipment?

Planning, Designing, Building

TSG-GuFiT: Realisation of a Vision

15 years ago we dreamed – we that is six to eight "young madcaps"

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Olympia stadium Munich now equipped with mobile synthetic turf

(Hennef, 09.04.2013) – The Trofil Sportbodensysteme GmbH & Co. KG Company, based in Hennef, Germany, was recently able to complete a very successful synthetic turf project in the Olympia Stadium in Munich.

Planning, Designing, Building

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.

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How child-friendly is Europe?

Slowly but surely, there has been a decrease in the birth rate in Europe.

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Alarming lack of exercise among children

As they get older, however, the amount of vital physical exercise they enjoy decreases.

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Movement from the outset

Children have a natural urge to move around. They jump, climb, balance or test their capabilities in other ways.

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3,000 participants at the 8th “Moved Childhood” congress.

(Lower Saxony Institute for Early Childhood Education and Development), has been fully booked for weeks in advance, and is the largest and most renowned event nationwide on the subject of early childhood education and development.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Thickness and weight of synthetic turf fibres

There is no standardised procedure available for determining the maximum thickness.

Planning, Designing, Building

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.