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Childrens Outdoor Environments Resources
PPN-Hosted Webinars
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PPN Zoom Book Club
May 2025: Digging into Nature: Outdoor Adventures for Happier and Healthier Kids, by Pooja Sarin Tandon, MD, MPH, FAAP, and Danette Swanson Glassy, MD, FAAP
PPN members, look for the link to register in your email inbox!
September 2024: , by Amy Wagenfeld, Affil. Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, PhD, OTR/L, SCEM, CAPS, EDAC, FAOTA, and Chad Kennedy, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, PLA, CPSI
May 2024: by Angela Hanscom
January 2024: by Rue Mapp
October 2023: by Ruth Wilson, PhD
May 2023: by Claire Latan¨¦, FË¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, MLA, SITES AP
January 2023: by Lolly Tai, PhD, RLA, FË¿¹ÏÊÓƵ
PPN Meetings at the Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Conference on Landscape Architecture
2024 PPN Meeting
of their meeting at Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ 2024 in Washington, D.C., which featured Caroline Templeton, PLA, and Gregory Miller, FË¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, PLA, speaking on inclusive outdoor play space design.
2023 PPN Meeting
Context matters, even at play! The Children¡¯s Outdoor Environments PPN session reflected on how a great playscape can cultivate a sense of place, offering intriguing ¡°aha¡± moments about culture, city, and region to punctuate the happy clamor of active and creative play. Brief talks were given by Cheryl Salazar, Managing Partner at PLAYCE Studio, Ltd., and Kate Tooke, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, Principal at Agency, followed by an interactive conversation. Cheryl discussed a dynamic placemaking method designed to tackle community engagement challenges in children¡¯s outdoor environments, equipping attendees with actionable tools for building consensus and support from both internal and external stakeholders. See Cheryl's handout for here presentation here. Kate shared some project examples from her work and the work of collaborators to talk about contextual design and how that crafts stewardship and grounds visitors in the landscape/city.
2022 PPN Meeting
At the Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ 2022 Conference on Landscape Architecture in San Francisco, the PPN hosted a campfire session on trauma responsive design.
2018 PPN Meeting
The Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Annual Meeting and EXPO¡¯s joint meeting of the Children¡¯s Outdoor Environments and Parks & Recreation Professional Practice Networks (PPNs) featured short presentations by Joy Kuebler, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, Joy Kuebler Landscape Architect, PC; Andrew Spurlock, FË¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, Spurlock Landscape Architects; and Diane Jones Allen, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, The University of Texas at Arlington and DesignJones, LLC.
2015 PPN Meeting
Children's Outdoor Environments PPN members shared the following presentations at the 2015 Annual Meeting in Chicago:
The Manzanita Gathering Place: Engaging Youth in Creative Place Making
Ilisa Goldman, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ
Community Design Collaborative: Strengthening Neighborhoods Through Design
Alexa Bosse, Associate Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ
Risky Elements in Play Design
Shannon Mikus, Associate Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ
Universal Design
If we want everyone to participate in public life, we must design and build an inclusive public realm that is accessible to all. The sizeable global population of people with physical, auditory, or visual disabilities, autism or neurodevelopmental and/or intellectual disabilities, or neuro-cognitive disorders will face greater challenges if we don¡¯t begin to more widely apply universal design principles. Landscape architects and designers plan and design inclusive spaces for all users. Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ's Universal Design guide includes information specifically on children, with sections on playgrounds, gardens, and parks and plazas.
Health Benefits of Nature
Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ's Health Benefits of Nature guide includes information specifically on children. Topics covered include: ADD/ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Cognition, Depression, General Health, Nature Deficit Disorder, Obesity, Stress, Type II Diabetes, and Well-being.
PPN Newsletters
Before was established in 2012 as the PPNs' blog, the Children's Outdoor Environments PPN published several online newsletters:
Summer 2012 | Summer 2011 | Winter 2010 | Summer 2009
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