Storybuilder by Nádia Henrique, Pedro Cabral, Marloes Bakker
- Education
- Master
- Skill
- Industrial Design
- Focus area
- Design for Play
- Year
- 2022
- Education project type
- Course
What
A toolkit for children to act out their story and create their own scenery & characters. The toolkit would contain modular and reusable pieces that the children can use to make different types of characters and scenery and combine them with arts & crafts supplies. It will also have cards to give the user a challenge and extra importance to the books.
Why
This project comes from the project group ‘The joy of reading’. They want to help children find joy in reading. To find a direction in our project, we visited Munkevængets Skole. We did observations and co-creation with the 4th grade
During this co-creation and observations, we discovered that the children like to create stories, whether it is making up stories themselves by creating something from a story they know or by making the characters of the book. We decided to explore this further and discussed our ideas during the supervision and midway presentation.
How
We started by approaching the children with the Internship as a Child, followed by the Co-Creation and Co-Design sessions. Behind the interactions with children we have been preparing these sessions with our own methods and processes, such as reading and studying, observation of the children in their environment, brainstorming ideas and creating design challenges and research questions, sketching, and prototyping using our industrial design skills.
