Playground Battle
The idea of a “junk playground” was first proposed by Carl Theodor Sorensen a Danish panorama architect. His proposal was tested in the course of the German occupation in 1943 when he created a “junk playground” in Emdrup, a housing property on the outskirts of Copenhagen (Kozlovsky, 2007). John Bertelsen was the primary play leader at Emdrup, enabled by architect and former seaman Dan Fink. True to Bertelson’s views, the central idea of Sorensen’s junk playgrounds was to make play and playgrounds the imagination of the kid – not the creativeness of the architect or builder. Children themselves, with help …