Play Notes (and a Lozziwurm) for your March 9 2013 weekend

• The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA sends news of their upcoming focus on play for the 2013 Carnegie International, for which they have installed a 'Lozziwurm' by Swiss artist Yvan Pestalozzi, who developed the 'wurm' in 1972.  It's in conjunction with the "Playground Project"; an  exhibition on the history of post-war playgrounds by Gabriela Burkharter of Architekturfuerkinder. The Playground Project will be on view for museum visitors from June 10 to August 23, 2013, and then October 4, 2013, to March 16, 2014.  See also a great post on the Lozziwurm at daddytypes.

 

• Playscapes friend Jay Beckwith sent me an email wondering if Maria Montessori was the originator of the cube-like climbing frames from last week.  I don't know...do any of my Montessori readers?

• The trend for massive interior slides in the homes of the super-rich continues with a 4-story Carsten Holler-esque construct in Manhattan.  When slides become a vanity item, you know the profile of play architecture has been raised.

• There's a project on indiegogo to raise money to restore the Bruce Goff Playtower in Bartlesville Oklahoma (featured previously on the blog); their goal is $10,000.  Consider helping to save this play icon of the plains!

• The new line of tiles by Motawa of Charley Harper's geometric wildlife drawings would be so beautiful as a playscape accent.... (via PrairieMod).