playground @playground

hamburg

🍋 being an observer of the changing light in my apartment 🍋 scheduling learning 🍋 here for community ✹ march 30 2026: reviving my interest in digital cultures. deep diving into the mind of my younger self - somehow i've lost direction and focus becoming a parent. ✹ may 11 2025: listening to the piano play of one of my kids last weekend - witnessed the sound of a stormy Baltic Sea ✹ feb 2 2025: saw the sun. went for a walk. contemplating. ✹ feb 13 2025: I don't want to answer the question "what are you doing for a living" anymore, especially to people I met anew. I'm sorry. Am I lurking? [https://bgriffin.work/LURKING-ON-LURKERS]

Last updated: Monday, March 30, 2026

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reading

  • deborah levy: the cost of living ✅
  • lilian thuram: das weiße denken
  • han kang: weiß ✅
  • teju cole: known and strange things
  • hilal / varatharajah: hierarchien der solidarität
  • lauren elkin: no. 91 / 92 notes on a parisisan commute

topics

  • online communitites / platform / alternative web
  • urban spaces designed for kids
  • making photos of playgrounds I come across
  • how does a web look like that is serving children?
  • collecting
  • motherhood
  • figuring out how are.na works best for me

looking forward to

  • started collecting daily sounds of my environment -  ✅
  • will visit linda liukas' playground in helsinki 🧢 among other sites march 2025 ✅
  • improving my french - reading LA POUDRE - entretiens par lauren bastide - tome 1 for this purpose
  • learning affinity - well started at least
  • i'm curious to learn more about the koala app

websites & reading list & watch list

  • https://livres.de.zeste.ee/
  • https://nesslabs.com/digital-garden-set-up
  • https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history
  • https://www.are.na/editorial/here-for-the-wrong-reasons
  • anne-laure le cunff :: tiny experiments
  • leslie kern :: feminist city
  • arte tv :: "mit offenen karten" die kartographische darstellung der welt [https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/103960-010-A/mit-offenen-karten/]
  • arte tv :: 42 "wie mächtig sind landkarten?" [https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/115510-015-A/wie-maechtig-sind-landkarten/]
  • https://www.thuram.org/ressource/les-dessous-des-cartes/
  • lydia davis: recommendations for good writing habits
  • christopher alexander: the timeless way of building
  • vigdis hjorth: long live the post horn!

i like...

  • not sticking to a schedule - I can't
  • stationary (📓 a lot)
  • of course, reading
  • listening to very loud music in the car when i'm driving alone
  • meandering
  • unexpected encounters
  • the smell of rain on concrete right after a rain shower (mostly during summers)

fav substack

  • hello ruby by linda liukas
  • personal canon by celine nguyen
  • weekend coffee time by kerls
  • naive weekly by kristoffer

playground is a fan of

elliott tjalve queenie kirsten