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Blocs Intummy Joguet Educatiu d'Aprendissatge by Nien Tzu, Yu Ling, Wei Jia and Chia Yi

Blocs Intummy Joguet Educatiu d'Aprendissatge by Nien Tzu, Yu Ling, Wei Jia and Chia Yi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Fèrre in Joguèt Competition Category.


FèrreJoguèt· 2022

Blocs Intummy Joguet Educatiu d'Aprendissatge

by Nien Tzu, Yu Ling, Wei Jia and Chia Yi

Client: Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Deparment

A' Design Award de Fèrre Winner in Joguèt Category

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The Design

About Blocs Intummy Joguet Educatiu d'Aprendissatge

Blòcs dins lo ventre es estat creat per transmetre lo concèpte que cadun a accès a un manjá segur e adequat. L'objectiu principal es d'educar los enfants prescolars sus la fam, aprendre a partejar e aumentar lor consciéncia sus la penúria alimentària. De blòcs geometrics d'aliments pòdon èsser partejats entre los enfants per emplenar lo ventre void de las popas, guidats per un libre d'istòrias illustrat, per melhorar la cognicion del partiment d'aliments e la valor del manjá.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Fèrre

Blocs Intummy Joguet Educatiu d'Aprendissatge a ganhat la distincion A' Design Award de Fèrre, una reconeissença prestigiosa acordada a de bons designs que respondon a las exigéncias professionalas e industrialas esperadas de creacions plan concebudas. Los ganhaires del Fèrre demòstran una granda abilitat, una nauta especializacion, una comprenedura d'expèrt e la capacitat creativa de lors creators. S'espèra que Blocs Intummy Joguet Educatiu d'Aprendissatge siá una creacion fòrça considerada, admirada e estimada, practica e innovanta. Aqueste design ganhaire de la distincion A' Design Award de Fèrre integra las melhoras practicas del sector e a de caracteristicas tecnicas competentas ligadas a un saber-far e a un talent. Per son rigor, Blocs Intummy Joguet Educatiu d'Aprendissatge merita lo respècte e es destinat a aportar de melhoraments a la qualitat de la vida que ajudan a far del mond un luòc melhor.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
Blocs in tummy was created to convey the concept that everyone has access to safe and adequate food which conform to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals SDGs no.2, zero hunger. The main purpose is to educate preschool children about hunger, and learn to share and increase their awareness on food shortage. It is hoped that preschool children can be inspired by playing with this innovative set of educational toys . Geometrical food blocks can be share among children to fill into the dolls with empty stomach, guided by an illustration story book, to enhance the cognition of food sharing and food cherish.
Dimensions & Packaging
Dimension:Each doll Height270mm x Width190mm x Thickness65mm
Tags
Children's educational toys, human rights, hunger, independent sharing, balanced diet
Production Technology
Material: wood, cotton fabric, cotton
Production technology: hand-sewn, hand-cutting
Surface coating: natural wood wax oil on the paint surface
Design Challenge
To integrate the profound issues into the language of design, and to seek guidance from the early childhood education profession and tailor, to understand information on pre-primary education and commercial safety products, and to make a set of children's teaching toys which break through traditional education and have long-range planning.
Research
Research type: How to transform abstract concepts into design language, early childhood education, cognitive psychology, heuristic education.
Research goal: Inspire awareness of hunger, learn to share and increase knowledge of food.
Research methods: type analysis, material analysis, toy type and size analysis, color analysis, cognitive psychology, children psychology, children’s picture book presentation, early childhood education learning goals.
Data collection: 3-6 year old children's toy market survey, children's toy analysis, children's cognitive development, toy safety regulations data.
Research tools: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe photoshop
Inspiration
According to the SDGs no.2 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the elimination of hunger, everyone has the right to have safe and adequate food, but observations show that there is still a problem of uneven distribution of food and insufficient nutrition in society.
Project Duration
The project started in July 2021 and was completed in Tainan, Taiwan in March 2022. First debut in Young Designer Exhibition (Yodex) June 2022 in Taipei World Trade Center NanGang Exhibition Hall.
Operation Flow
This is an educational toy with dolls and building blocks as the starting point. Through observation and assembly, from knowing different food dolls to increasing knowledge of food, and with the guidance and correspondence of story and picture books, children can play in the context; in the process of hunger, children can feel the importance of balanced nutrition and learn to share on their own.
Team Members
Instructor: ChungSheng Chen
Designer: NienTzu Chang
Designer: YuLing Tsai
Designer: WeiJia Gong
Designer: ChiaYi Hung
Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Department
Image Credits
NienTzu Chang
YuLing Tsai
WeiJia Gong
ChiaYi Hung

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