For our many landscape architect play friends, check out all of the LACES approved sessions at the 10th Anniversary Conference on the Value of Play: PLAY FOR LIFE, March 31- April 3 in Clemson, South Carolina:
- Playable Infrastructure
- What type of play is that? Categorizing play-types to objectively evaluate outdoor play environments
- Socio-Environmental Barriers to Outdoor Play and Their Impact on Child Health Outcomes
- Free play and alternative education pedagogies
- Hardware or software in provisioning public play spaces for children: An analysis of forces at play
- Action Research on Play for Life: The Making of Transitional Play Unit for Two-Year-Old Classrooms
- Play for All: Providing Accessible and Inclusive Outdoor Play and Learning Environments
- A Field-Testing Study on Outdoor Play Environments: Findings and Lessons Learned
- Play by the River – Bringing natural, all-ages play to a new River Garden by the Mississippi
- Learning through doing: The benefits to learning through planning for inclusive play.
- I’m Tired of Saying “No”: Creating invitations for boisterous and adventurous play in the classroom
- Sensory Inclusive Play: Partnering with KultcureCity to become Sensory Inclusive Certified
- Reframing the Playground: European Play Precedents at Tulsa’s Gathering Place
- Traffic Gardens and Dramatic/Challenging Play: Engagement as a Means of Facilitating Risk Competence
- Developing Minds and Bodies Through Loose Parts Play
- Naturalized Outdoor Learning Environments in Childcare Facilities: A Review of Policies in 3 States
- Rotary PlayGarden: An Inclusive Play Success Story
- Approaches for Evaluating the Design of Natural Playspaces to Sup-port Children’s Outdoor Play
- The Role of a Playground Consultant
- Inclusive Play Panel
- “But, I have nothing to do in the park!” – Thinking about places for teens
- Elevating Lifelong Play to Create Healthy Communities
- Guerrilla Playfare:Lessons Learned From Parkour & Streetsport For Designing More Play-Friendly Cities
- Taking the idea of an inclusive playground past the label to true Universal Design
- Blank Slate: Design for Learning, Exploration and Physical Growth
- Temple University Students Design an Eco-schoolyard for Play and Learning at Greenberg Elementary
- How to Make Your Community Playful
- Creating Playful Learning Communities
- Lighting Play Environments for Today & the Future
The Conference on the VALUE of Play
The Play Conference, as it is commonly known, is an annual educational conference presented by the US Play Coalition. The latest research and practices in the field of play are presented at the conference, which brings together play researchers, park and recreation professionals, educators, health scientists, architects, landscape architects, designers, planners, business and community leaders, psychologists, physicians and parents from across the U.S. and beyond. The three day event includes keynote and featured speakers, round tables on critical issues and trends, research symposium for academics, educational sessions for practitioners, action and research grant opportunities, PLAYtalks and PLAYinstitutes, networking, EPIC play breaks and more.