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    LEKKROKAR- ”Något att hänga upp leken på”
    (2010-10-04) Vidstige, Erik; Göteborgs universitet/HDK - Högskolan för design och konsthantverk; Göteborg University/HDK - School of Design and Crafts
    The research of today shows that natural environments are important for children's physical and mental development. It also shows that children often opt out of the traditional equipment playgrounds have to offer. By breaking the boundary between the playground and park, is it possible to create a new space that will encourage rather than demand play? Through gathering information and talking to landscape architects, designers, and children, I realized that today's parks already have environments and objects that could be used for playing. But what they need is something that makes the environment even more inviting for children to play. I have therefore created a concept for playing that adapts to the parks and green spaces. Through my work and with my concept “Gamehooks - a hook for catching the game” I want to show and inspire new ways and opportunities for families to spend time in a natural environment. By applying this concept to Slottsskogen in Gothenburg I created a proposal for how such a space could look. “The gamehook” in Slottsskogen is inspired by how children play in natural environments and create games based on different characteristics of the areas.
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    Platsanalys, grunden för en gestaltningsprocess
    (2015-02-03) Vidstige, Erik; University of Gothenburg/Department of Conservation; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvård
    Today’s short-term approach to the garden constructions and the design process needs to evolve and become more focused on long term. It is common to adapt the growing site to the plants aesthetic features. The procedure should be reversed and the site should create the framework for the design. By identifying already existing conditions of the growing site during the site analysis, the first step towards a change can be taken. Therefore, I have researched the possibility for a development of the site analysis procedure. The work process has been divided into two phases. In the first phase I have study the agriculture’s, the forestry’s and the garden culture’s different methods and procedures for identifying site-specific conditions. The scale and the various focus of the horticultural specializations creates different procedure for the analyses. The literature study resulted, in the second phase, in a compilation of factors that affect the plant site and how they can be identified. The compilation of factors then was adapted to the function of a site analysis. This thesis work is designed to serve as support for the site analysis. With this thesis work a first step towards the development of the site analysis is taken. By further adjusting the usability and applying the developed site analysis to a design project, additional exploration and development can be made.