{"id":50,"date":"2014-04-03T12:48:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T16:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=50"},"modified":"2018-10-09T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T21:10:00","slug":"the-future-of-playgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2014\/04\/03\/the-future-of-playgrounds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Playgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Boston area has become a hotbed for innovation in playground design and our speakers for the free talk, \u201cThe Future of Playgrounds,” are at the forefront of that movement.<\/p>\n

Eden Dutcher and Kirk Hiatt of the Somerville landscape architecture firm GroundView <\/span>will speak about their design for Somerville\u2019s Chuckie Harris Park (photo above by Christian Phillips), which opened in 2013 and reimagined a traditional playground model by dispersing custom play elements throughout sculpted, vegetated terrain.<\/p>\n

Cambridge builder and sculptor Mitch Ryerson<\/span> has become a go-to guy for bringing such new designs to life. He\u2019ll talk about the custom play structures he\u2019s created for the Kemp Playground at Cambridge Common, the Stoneman Playground on the Boston Esplanade, and other landmark new playgrounds.<\/p>\n

The discussion begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, at the Malden Public Library<\/a>, 36 Salem St., Malden, Mass. Admission is Free. It will be followed at 8 p.m. by a tour of the library\u2019s Converse Memorial Building art galleries with art curator Marysara Naczi.<\/p>\n

The talk is part of \u201cQuiet, Please,” a monthly series at the Malden Public Library about arts, cultures and other interesting things. It\u2019s hosted by Greg Cook of Malden, an arts reporter for WBUR.org and The Providence Phoenix newspaper.<\/p>\n

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