Thoughts on playground design

Thoughts from a 2000 article in the Independent reviewing "Un Jeu d'Enfants", an exhibition of new children's play equipment executed in plastics.

"surprisingly little attention has been paid to the design of children's playspaces...playgrounds across Europe remain almost untouched by advances in material or design technology..The children's playground business is dominated by a few installation companies and myriad small-scale manufacturers, whose profitability depends on installing the same apparatus over and over again. They resist novelty and the consequent pressure to follow fashion."