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Habitat Fonccion Primària : Bricas de jòc educatiu by Jia Xin, Wei Chi and Yu Chieh

Habitat Fonccion Primària : Bricas de jòc educatiu by Jia Xin, Wei Chi and Yu Chieh is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Bronze in Joguèt Competition Category.


BronzeJoguèt· 2023

Habitat Fonccion Primària : Bricas de jòc educatiu

by Jia Xin, Wei Chi and Yu Chieh

Client: Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Deparment

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Joguèt Category

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The Design

About Habitat Fonccion Primària : Bricas de jòc educatiu

Tèxte del libre : Habitat es un ensems de bricas de jòc educatiu concebudas per als enfants d'edat prescolara. Las bricas mostran cossí lo cambiament climatic damatja los ecosistèmas e encoratjan una presa de consciéncia precòça de la proteccion ecologica. Dos decòrs son inclús : un glacièr que se fond e una forèst desboscada. Los enfants descobrisson los problèmas, reconstrusisson l'environament e tornan los animals a lors abitats. Las bricas son fabricadas en escòrça de siure, atal cap d'arbre es talhat per lor produccion. Lo siure es antistatic e resistís a la posca. De gradients de forma e de color permeton un empielament dobèrt e sens limits.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Habitat Fonccion Primària : Bricas de jòc educatiu a ganhat la distincion A' Design Award de Bronze, una reconeissença plan prestigiosa acordada a de designs excellents que se destrian per la creativitat, l'engenh e la finessa. Los ganhaires del Bronze son d'artefactes largament abils e sorprenentament creatius que provan la vasta experiéncia, l'imaginacion e l'engenhositat de lors designers. S'espèra que Habitat Fonccion Primària : Bricas de jòc educatiu siá un objècte fòrça considerat, admirat e estimat, notablament professional e innovant. Aqueste design ganhaire de la distincion A' Design Award de Bronze integra las melhoras practicas de l'art, de la sciéncia, del design e de la tecnologia e es excellent per son atencion al detalh. Habitat Fonccion Primària : Bricas de jòc educatiu satisfa esplendidament los besonhs, toca los desirs, encanta los sentiments e interèssa la curiositat.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Habitat, the toy bricks was designated to convey the concept of climate change cause damage to ecosystem and inspire children's awareness of ecological protection and to educate preschool children about climate action. Made of Spanish cork bark material which is no trees were chop down for the sake of production, is antistatic that avoid dust adhere, prevent children from asthma and allergies. Made up of gradients of shape and colors, open-ended stackable toy brick in natural habitat scenario.
Dimensions & Packaging
Materials: Cork, Latex Paint, Paper
Dimension:
Glacier/ each cork brick size from Length 30 cm x Width 23cm x Height 3cm to Length 7cm x Width 3cm x Height 3cm.
Forest: each cork brick size from Length 20cm x Width 11cm x Height 5cm to length 4cm x width 2.5cm x height 3cm. playground map: length 42cm x width 59.4cm , Flash card: length 29.7cm x width 42cm
Tags
Habitat, Climate Change, Climate Action, Toy Brick, SDGs, Educational, Cork Wood, Ecosystem
Production Technology
Material: Cork wood, paper. Production: laser cutting, flat output, manual coloring. Surface treatment: Use latex paint to color, retain the cork surface texture.
Design Challenge
Because cork wood is made up of broken pieces, it will be uneven and need to be re-finished by hand, and because of the small size of the cork, the final size can be easily broken.
Research
Research Type: Team Teaching - Science, Art, Mathematics
Objective: To learn and understand the effects of climate change and the habits of daily life
Methods:To collect the causes, effects, mitigation and adaptation measures of climate change.Based on the analysis of commercial toys, this paper classifies the suitable play methods for children's age development, and analyzes the quality of toys, aiming at sustainable materials.A questionnaire was designed to investigate the environmental problems and improve the environment of children by interviewing with teachers.
Data collection: climate change-related data analysis, 3-6 years old teaching toy market analysis, mass lifestyle analysis, early childhood teachers' opinions analysis.
Research tools: Rhinoceros 3D, Solidworks, Adobe Illustrator, procreate.
Inspiration
According to the United Nation called for Sustainable Development Goals, two climate change issues namely the melting of arctic glaciers and over-deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, it brings out the seriousness of ecological damage cause by human, eventually global temperature rise, starvation, extinction of species. Let children learn and understand the effects of climate change to daily life, to develop their environmental concerns and habits from an early age education see its urgency.
Project Duration
The project began in August 2022 and was completed in Tainan, Taiwan in March 2023.
Operation Flow
The children were asked to find out the problems and make ecological restoration. After assembling and constructing the environmental components, the animals could be put back into their ecological state. Through conceptual guidance and practical implementation, children can remember more deeply.
Team Members
Instructor: ChungSheng Chen
Designer: JiaXin Lin
Designer: WeiChi Hsieh
Designer: YuChieh Wang
Designer: WeiCheng Wang
Tainan University of Technology Product Design Dept.
Image Credits
Image#1~#5: JiaXin Lin, WeiChi Hsieh, YuChieh Wang, WeiCheng Wang, 2023.

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