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- Q5387079 description "Canadian designer".
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- Q5387079 abstract "Eric McMillan, (born in Sheffield, England, in 1942) is a Canadian designer who began his career designing exhibitions. By an extraordinary opportunity in 1972, he started designing play areas and elements that encouraged children to learn through play. The concepts were composed of a great variety of materials. He has been referred to as “The father of soft play”.In 1968 he moved from The Canadian Government Exhibition Commission in Ottawa to Toronto to join the design team planning Ontario Place. When Ontario Place opened in 1971 the section of the exhibition he had designed called “Explosions” was the most successful exhibit in that first season. In consequence of this success he was appointed chief designer for the whole project. The following year (1972) saw the opening of the “Children’s Village” land play area and from that project grew his reputation as a designer of children’s play attractions. The opening of the “Water Play” area in 1973 secured that reputation. His work introduced ideas like the ball crawl (ball pit), net climb, punch bag forest, birdie glide, roller slide, cave crawl, together toys, foam swamp, water bicycle cannons, balancing buoys, rubber band bounce, and a whole range of interactive play elements.In 1975 together with partners Rosemarie Duell and Len Rydahl he formed a design partnership and went on to design play attractions around the world. “Captain Kid’s” at SeaWorld of Ohio was the first project built in the U.S. in 1975. His list of projects include: “Whale of a Time World” San Vallejo, California 1979; "Sesame Place", Langhorne, Pennsylvania 1980; “Parc de la Villette” Paris, France 1984; “Space Science Park” (United States Space Camp) Huntsville, Alabama 1984; “Children’s Museum Waterfront Attraction”, Boston, Massachusetts 1987; ‘‘Founders Park’’ Nelson, New Zealand, 1987; “Eureka!” Halifax England, 1988; and many other projects including work at World Expos’ 1967, 1976, 1984, 1986 .Time magazine once described him as “The next Walt Disney.”".
- Q5387079 birthDate "1942-04-13".
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- Q5387079 birthDate "1942-04-13".
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- Q5387079 dateOfBirth "1942-04-13".
- Q5387079 name "Eric McMillan".
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- Q5387079 shortDescription "Canadian designer".
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- Q5387079 comment "Eric McMillan, (born in Sheffield, England, in 1942) is a Canadian designer who began his career designing exhibitions. By an extraordinary opportunity in 1972, he started designing play areas and elements that encouraged children to learn through play. The concepts were composed of a great variety of materials.".
- Q5387079 label "Eric McMillan".
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