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First and foremost please let me be clear: This
website is a personal website and a labour of love designed to help others find out more about
adventure play. I would much rather not have to host this site and would
love there to be a professional body or group that would represent adventure
play in Britain. Sadly those days appear to have gone and we are left with
disparate groups and lone workers, each courageously developing and enhancing
adventure play.
The origin of this website was my utterly
unsuccessful attempt to find out about the details of where adventure
play came from. Although I researched this for some years, it was by no
means easy and I regularly wished that somewhere on the web there could be
a site that had at least the basics about adventure play.
Having worked on an adventure playground
since
1989, I fear the loss of all the amazing experience and knowledge amassed by
individual playworkers. It's a magical profession, unlike any other, and I
hope that we can find a way of recording all the knowledge gained from the
early years of adventure play before it
is lost.
A very special thanks to Roy Kozlovsky at
Princeton University for helping and inspiring me to continue with this
endeavour.
Keep Adventure Play alive!
Best wishes,
Robert Dighton |
