What good design can do for us

摘要

Standardised play areas brimful of brashly coloured prefabricated equipment can not only be boring for children, they can actually also be dangerous. So reckons Danish landscape architect and children's play champion Helle Nebelong, "The prefabricated playground tries to live up to 100 per cent safety standards based on media horror stories. Yet standardised playgrounds can be dangerous. When the distance between ladder rungs is the same the child has no need to concentrate.