22 Landscape Architect Quarterly 06/ Round Table Playing with Landscape Features 12/ A Brief History of the Urban Playground 16/ Landscape Inspiration Publication # 40026106 22/ CSLA/OALA Awards Summer 2013 Issue 22 62177-G22-Insert-A_Layout 1 Jul/15/2013 3:01 PM Page 1 Contents President’s Editorial Board Message Message 03/ Up Front President’s Message Editorial Board Message Information on Play is an essential part of life in order for any individual If you’ve ever watched a two-year-old with a set of the Ground to attain full cognitive, emotional, social, and physical blocks, you know the intrepid business of play: the potential through growth and development. dauntless focus, the furrowed eyebrows. It’s a process we’re all familiar with: problem solving, taking risks, Play: Besides architects, who may design child-oriented trying things out until we find the pleasing click-together buildings such as schools, daycare centres, or hospitals, of masses and ideas. landscape architects are the professionals who specialize 06/ Round Table Playing with Landscape in the design and development of outdoor child-oriented Play is a serious concept. Though we’re apt to approach spaces that provide challenging and safe opportunities our work with a sense of order and intention, the design MODERATED BY NETAMI STUART, OALA for learning through fun exploration. process is necessarily messy, and requires exploration, failure, trial, error, and naiveté to produce creative 12/ A Brief History of the “Play” may be used in many different contexts: fun thought. “The way we work does not always happen in Urban Playground pretense, children’s games, theatrical and musical a planned way. We can be… quite childish actually, in TEXT BY ADRIENNE HALL performances. Play is always associated with creativity order to avoid the seriousness that doesn’t allow one to and innocence. develop new ideas,” says Martin Rein Cano in this issue, 16/ All Aboard for Landscape in an intimate interview with Victoria Taylor. Inspiration I would like to share a passage on creativity that touched Distinctive destinations me and which I have carried forward for more than thirty We also explore how play can augment the process of around the world years. It reminds me that, as Association leaders and rep- landscape architecture, as well as what happens when COMPILED BY JOCELYN HIRTES resentatives, we must not be static but rather look for every play is the subject of our work. We dissect the history of opportunity to provide the tools for our members to attain the modern playground, thinking about how the trajectory full professional growth and development. This passage, of child psychology has affected our work on play spaces. 20/ Playing in Public which Professor Bob Scarfo shared with me and fellow stu- We also complement this historical understanding with a Martin Rein Cano in conversation dents in our landscape architecture class at the University look at the details. Which plants are best used to bring light with Victoria Taylor, OALA of Guelph in 1983, was written by Bernard Huebner: and whimsy to a space? “BY THE TIME I WAS SIX I KNEW MOST EVERYTHING THERE WAS TO KNOW: 22/ CSLA Awards […] On the topic of whimsy, we turn to the great creative THAT AUNT ANNA’S PARROT TALKED EXACTLY LIKE AUNT ANNA,THAT SPOKES muse of our natural world, asking the membership for IN WAGON WHEELS AND WINGS ON HUMMING BIRDS STOOD STILL THEY 26/ OALA Awards WENT SO FAST. ideas on where to travel for inspiration, and we end up […] in an art gallery marveling at the mind of Kim Adams’ I KNEW THAT GOD COULD SEE ME HIDING UNDERNEATH THE PORCH, 28/ Plant Corner OR TIPTOEING INTO THE PANTRY. imagined landscapes. Selected Plants for Playspaces BUT I KNEW WHEN TO CRY AND WHEN TO LAUGH. TEXT BY JOCELYN HIRTES AND TODD SMITH I THANKED GOD EACH NIGHT FOR MAKING ME SO HAPPY AND SO WISE. This special issue also features the CSLA Awards of THEN ONE DAY A LADY TOLD ME HOW A RAINBOW WORKED, AND MADE Excellence—Ontario Region, and the OALA Awards, a ME TELL HER BACK, AGAIN AND THEN AGAIN UNTIL SHE THOUGHT I 30/ Notes UNDERSTOOD; SHE SAID SHE HAD NEVER HEARD OF ANY POT OF GOLD. chance to see the remarkable outcome of risk and A miscellany of AFTER THAT I LEARNED TO WRITE MY NAME, COUNT, TELL TIME AND TALK invention closer to home. OUT LOUD TO THE FLAG. news and events THE LADY SAID I HAD A REAL GOOD MEMORY. I GUESS I DO: So detour with us, and take a seriously light-hearted 42/ Artifact TODAY, FOR NO GOOD REASON, I SAW THOSE SAME SPINNING SPOKES FIXED romp through stories about art, absurdity, and leisure. IN MY MIND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS.” Small Spaces, Many Stories As always, we welcome your ideas for future issues, so get in touch with us via Twitter @GroundMag, or TEXT BY LORRAINE JOHNSON Again, it is my continuous pleasure to serve. email [email protected]. To see what is new and exciting with the Association, DENISE PINTO please see our updated website at www.oala.ca. 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