GrowForest 益智學習玩具 by Peishan Cai, Wanling Gao and Haochun Hu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 銀獎 in 玩具、遊戲及消閒產品設計 Competition Category.
銀玩具· 2020
GrowForest 益智學習玩具
by Peishan Cai, Wanling Gao and Haochun Hu
Client: Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Deparment
A' Design Award 銀獎 Winner in 玩具 Category
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The Design
About GrowForest 益智學習玩具
幫助兒童了解土地生命，林業的保護，養護和恢復的可持續發展目標。樹木的造型與台灣本地相思樹，香柏木，To木，台灣杉，樟樹和亞洲杉的木材相同。溫暖的木質紋理，每種樹種的獨特氣味以及不同樹種的海拔地形。帶有插圖的故事書有助於深入了解森林保護概念的兒童，了解台灣樹種之間的差異，並為圖畫書帶來保護森林的概念。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銀獎
GrowForest 益智學習玩具是 A' Design Award 銀獎得主，這是授予頂級、華美而令人印象深刻的設計的極為崇高的認可。銀獎得主是極其卓越、極具創造力的作品，展現出其設計師傑出的專業技能、才華與敏銳。預計GrowForest 益智學習玩具將成為一件出色的典範之作，兼具非凡的專業性與深刻的創新性。這件贏得 A' Design Award 銀獎的設計是一項備受矚目、令人欽佩的發明，造福並拓展藝術、科學、設計和技術的界限。GrowForest 益智學習玩具是一件令人羨慕的創作，它喚起渴望，帶來積極的情感，並激發驚嘆與讚嘆。
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This is a set of educational learning toys for children, helping them to understand sustainable development goals of life on land, the protection, conservation and restoration of forestry. Using Taiwan domestic woods of acacia, incense cedar, Tochigi, Taiwan fir, camphor tree, and Asian fir to make up as tree model. Children can feel the warm touch of wooden texture, smell the unique scent of each tree species, knowing the altitude terrain for different tree species. Besides, an illustrated story book help to deep root children the concept of forest conservation.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Material: wood, paper. Size (mm): Acacia: length 107 x width 100 x height 170, Xiao Nan: length 87 x width 87 x height 170, alder: length 90 x width 73 x height 180, Taiwan fir: length 74 x width 74 x height 169, camphor tree: length 117x width 97x Height 170, small tree: length 27.5 x width 27.5 x height 6, bird: length 32 x width 33, low chassis: length 354 x width 186 x height 150, middle chassis:length 163 x width 108 x height 30, high chassis: length 295x width 178 x height 45, picture book: length 210 x width 210 x thickness 50, picture card: length 100 x width 60 x thickness 0.5
- Tags
- Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs),Educational Learning, Toy, Acacia, Taiwan Incense Cedar, Alder, Taiwan Fir, Camphor, Asian Fir
- Production Technology
- Material: Taiwan domestic wood:acacia, incense cedar, Tochigi, Taiwan fir, camphor tree, and Asian fir. Production technology: CNC milling, lathe, manual polishing. Surface contact: baking paint uses environmentally friendly paint, and some retain the wood texture of wood.
- Design Challenge
- The density of a certain kind of wood is different, and some shapes cannot be made by CNC processing, which needs to be made by hand. The paint of different wood colors is slightly different than expected. In order to achieve the contour shapes and colors we wanted, the team tried and made many mistakes and finally came up with a good solution.
- Research
- Type of research: The four senses of learning, smell, sight and touch. Goal: Recognize wood and conservation concepts. Methods: Morphological analysis, wood material analysis, toy type size analysis. Data collection: market research and toy analysis for children aged 2 to 5 years. research tools: Solid Works, KeyShot.
- Inspiration
- The forests cover more than 30% of the earth's surface, due to climate change, excessive forest rafting and bushfires, global forests are facing an unprecedented severe crisis. Large-scale deforestation has drastically reduced the forest area that brings great impact to forest ecology. In echo to United Nation SGDs15, developed a set of educational learning toys to enhance children consciousness on the protection, conservation and restoration of the forestry and terrestrial ecology.
- Project Duration
- The project began in July 2019 and was completed in Tainan, Taiwan in March 2020.
- Operation Flow
- The teaching aids with conservation forest as the core, using assembly methods, first recognize the changes in terrain and altitude, then recognize the different species of trees in Taiwan, and use picture books to guide children into the context to play with toys. Learn through four senses-hearing, smell, vision, and touch. Children feel everything in the forest, and understand the forest from childhood education, and strengthen the concept of natural ecological conservation.
- Patents
- Patent Pending
- Team Members
- Instructor: ChungSheng Chen
Designer: PeiShan Cai
WanLing Gao
HaoChun Hu
Tainan University of Technology/ Product Design Department. - Image Credits
- PEISHAN CAI, WANLING GAO ,HAOCHUN HU.
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