Recently SBS television's Dateline programme ran a story on a Danish 'forest kindergarten', where kids are actively encouraged to run free, play with knives, climb high, explore fallen trees and more.
The show drew a huge audience response both here in Australia and overseas.
Click here to watch the episode.
In Seattle a man has been ordered to demolish part of a home in order to keep the crazy-ass playground he's built from recycled materials in the backyard.
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Last week Amalie travelled to Geelong to attend a meeting of the AILA National Council.
Here's what she did when not in the meeting... highlights from 1.5 days in Geelong and 1.5 days in Melbourne!
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Not simply a kick-ass name, this wonderful renovation by Liddicoat & Goldhill takes a dowdy cluster of 18th century farm buildings and transforms them into an inventive, environmentally conscious home that screams "Please! Come and live with me forever!"
<sigh>
If your jealousy will bear it, more pictures here.
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Hold your phone up to the sky and this brilliant and beautiful app tells you which constellations are above, day or night.
You can also track satellites and get automatic notifications when the International Space Station is passing overhead.
I know everyone loves a freebie, but pay the couple of bucks, it's worth it!
More info here.
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Lee Borthwick's beautiful installations use mirrored logs to encourage viewers to pause and consider trees from a different perspective. The unexpected mirrors interrupt a garden stroll with a view we so often miss, just because we forget to look up.
Click to be delighted by more of Lee's work.
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When I was a kid we played outside all the time.
I loved riding my bike round and around the canefields behind our house. My brother spent years climbing on to our shed roof and then hurtling himself off on a flying fox.
A friend’s place had the perfect combination of chook shed, tree, open lawn, and dark under-house area.
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