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centuryofthechild:

Aldo van Eyck. Drawing of sandpits, somersault frames, climbing frames, play tables, and climbing mountains. 1960

Van Eyck, like his friends Peter and Alison Smithson, was fascinated by the relationship between the child and the postwar city. He joined the Department of City Development at Amsterdam Public Works in 1947, and in the decades that followed he designed more than seven hundred playgrounds for the city. These spaces, often created from derelict lots, incorporated sandpits, metal climbing frames, stepping stones, and small concrete divots to collect rainwater in abstract compositions. Van Eyck, who considered physical recreation an important part of children’s development, defined areas for free-form activity without being closed off from the surrounding community.

Learn more at MoMA.org/centuryofthechild

locotidiano:

Casa estudio de Luis Barragán en México D.F. (1947)
reportaje fotográfico de Aarón Ornelas

La casa Barragán tiene su propia web

Teaching materials 1920s
Conceived and commissioned by Maria Montessor, Wood, dimensions variable.

Manufactured by Baroni e Marangon, Gonzaga, Italy (est. 1911). Collection of Maurizio Marzadori, Bologna. Photo: Carlos da Silva

While studying for her medical degree at the Regia Università di Roma Sapienza–the first woman to qualify there–Montessori developed a particular interest in the creative potential of children with learning difficulties. From systematic analysis of these children’s play, she devised an activity-based teaching method that used material objects to stimulate their senses, and she believed that children should be allowed to explore these materials at their own pace. Montessori’s 1909 publication about her innovative methods developed an international following, which led to the establishment of schools based on her philosophies around the world.

These vintage Montessori materials are part of the exhibition Century of the Child, on display at MOMA Museum.

Maria Montessori

The wonders of Possibility, sci-fi anthology, under the supervision of Sergio Solmi and Carlo Fruttero, Einaudi Edition.

— Cercando completamente altro.

Bischi G.I., Carini R., Gardini L., Tenti P., Sulle Orme del Caos. Comportamenti complessi in modelli matematici semplici, Bruno Mondadori Editore, 2004.

via: econ.uniurb

Didactic plaques found in the National Tile Museum in Lisbon, Portugal. Top image is a geometrical schema of a pentagon followed by a geometrical schema of a pyramid. Photo by Eve Torrence.

Double helix shadow on an old dive tank in Kaka’ako, Honolulu, Hawai’i by Mark Ewald.

This statuary is located at the entrance to the German Historical Museum in Berlin. The tablet contains the “Bride’s Chair diagram“ for proving the “Pythagorean Theorem” and the diagram used for constructing the circumcenter of a triangle. Photo by Charles F. Marion.

I’m hungry!!!
Marine worm courtesy of Philippe Crassous

WAR IN OUR HUMAN TRENCHES

The captions shows the dramatic encounter, in the liver, of our unsung heroes, the immune cells, and an invading parasite, the trypanosome. Each side bears an impressive arsenal of chemical weapons that will define at the end the unset, or not, of the Sleeping Sickness. 

via: FEI Company

Slonimsky and John Cage, Los Angeles 1987 “enmeshed in the twisted musical ribbon” of Slonimsky’s invention called “Mobius Strip Tease”. Photo by Margo Leavin