Progress Report #1 1/15/10

Weekly Meetings, Tuesday 4:30 @ SC

Ideas:
Travis: half-pipe with fiber optics, waves of color going down the tunnel. pressure sensors on the outside/xylophone. If you hit the outside, on the inside it changes colors (ex - blue/green to red). domes with holes on the end. safety exit in middle.

Take elements from existing playgrounds:

- things with bars, outline of cubes
- places to hide
- climbing
- narrative
- metal cacti
- pirate wheel
- tether ball
- sound wall (whisper and hear each other)

Involve adults and children
Get parents to play with their kids with/on/in the structure

- benches

- trail surrounding the structure


Themes
- nature

spiral trench of dirt /gardening
garden, synthetic light
- education

music

health

learning with physical motion (jumping or tugging)

Physics (Rube Goldberg)
- narrative

pirates

wrecked ship

island

tree house

outer space

swiss family robinson

- Food
- Music
bongos

xylophone

speaking sound-transferring things (whistling affecting something)

sliding pipes for kids to rearrange

musical instrument that is also a structure to be climbed on
- swinging, tire swing, climbing with pipe structure
- space for competition

battle with light

human pong

-Farm

--> come up with unifying theme and narrative, role play space