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Playgrounds of Isamu Noguchi

This lecture, led by Art + Design faculty Milda Richardson, Ph.D, will focus on the early playground designs by Isamu Noguchi, their influence on landscape design and their relationship to theories of play and learning.

This lecture is presented in collaboration with the exhibition Learning by Design: Tracing the Influence of the Kindergarten Movement on Art, Architecture and Design.

Presented by: Art + Design, Northeastern Center for the Arts

Photo: Isamu Noguchi, Riverside Drive Playground model (unrealized), 1961-1966, Bronze
Photo by William Taylor. © The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York

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