The playground design framework bookLET is visual piece of performative writing intended to intervene into a routine event of designing a playground. Here, I cross-out but I don’t entirely take out the word “framework” in the title of the artifact because it does perform a function, carries a forceful intention when it mumbles “look here, not there” or “think, not shop”. Pollock (1988) describes this as a consequential quality of performative writing which “is meant to make a difference” (p. 95) in mobilizing praxis. Not being entirely done with Pollock’s unsure suggestions of performative writing qualities, I explore its “nervous” quality by cutting and foldings artifact’s pages, typing the words on a manual typewriter with the force of fingers reflected in the heavyness/lightness of letters, creating two cover pages, titling the zine “PROPositions” as a shift between pedagogical course to intentionally propose and acknowledgment that a piece is a mere stage fixture to be animated into living by others. Lastly, in considering Le Guin’s (1985) speculation on namelessness as “a refusal of certainty of knowing and being known” (“She Unnames Them”), the bookLET does not specify who the author is.
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