A safe maze
Posted: March 9th, 2007 | 3 Comments »Looking on the internets for an image that would represent an environment that would be both playful and secure for kids, I stumbled across this maze by Peter Randall (photo credit: Martyn Barratt):
Why do I blog this? this is tight to my interest in spatial environment and their legibility. This one is outdoor but you have museums that have indoor maze for kids; those need to be safe and allow people to escape quickly (and the walls are sometimes 30cm high).
Technically, that’s not a maze at all, but a labyrinth. In a maze, it’s possible to actually become lost, in a labyrinth, you simply follow a path from outside to the center; you can’t get lost.
That is actually a picture of a labyrinth (you don’t make choices about which way to turn, you simply follow the path to the other end). [I have a nice book called "The Unending Mystery: A Journey throught Labyrinths and Mazes" by David Willis McCullough about the history and psychology (if one can say that) of labyrinths and mazes.]
Thanks for the blog — I’ve been following it for quite a while now. It’s a great brain tickler!
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