2030 City Blueprint 益智學習玩具 by Chen Yu, Yi Lin, Sih Ci and Chih Ling

2030 City Blueprint 益智學習玩具 by Chen Yu, Yi Lin, Sih Ci and Chih Ling is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 鐵獎 in 玩具、遊戲及消閒產品設計 Competition Category.

鐵玩具· 2022

2030 City Blueprint 益智學習玩具

by Chen Yu, Yi Lin, Sih Ci and Chih Ling

Client: Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Deparment

A' Design Award 鐵獎 Winner in 玩具 Category

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The Design

About 2030 City Blueprint 益智學習玩具

這款套益智玩具旨在增強學齡前兒童對城市和社區永續發展的意識和思維，使城市和人類住區變得包容、安全、有彈性和可持續。採用回收瓦楞纖維板作為唯一材料，符合綠色玩具和永續發展目標。透過不同的城市平面圖、建築街區、土地、樹木、車輛、人力、風力渦輪機和太陽能板等綠色能源發電機，鼓勵孩子們創造性地、永續地建造他/她的未來城市。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鐵獎

2030 City Blueprint 益智學習玩具是 A' Design Award 鐵獎得主，這是授予滿足人們對設計精良的創作所期待的專業與工業要求的優良設計的聲望認可。鐵獎得主展現出其創作者的高超技藝、高度專業化、專家級的理解力和創造能力。預計2030 City Blueprint 益智學習玩具將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的創作，既實用又創新。這件贏得 A' Design Award 鐵獎的設計整合了行業最佳實踐，並擁有與專業知識和才華相結合的稱職技術特性。2030 City Blueprint 益智學習玩具因其嚴謹而受到尊重，旨在提供有助於讓世界變得更美好的生活品質改善。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This is an early childhood educational toy, focusing on the sustainable development of cities. Children can learn by playing to understand the requirement of city development process with various components. To cultivate basic concepts during early childhood stage is fundamental. The playing mechanism can develop children hand eye coordination and their autonomy capability. Compared with the puzzle building blocks in the market, instead materials used commonly like wood or plastic, recycle corrugated fiberboard as main material since recycling also conforms to sustainable development objective.
Dimensions & Packaging: Material：corrugated paper, Acrylic paint.
Play Items: 1. Basic building:12 pcs buildings blocks in 4 types, each comes with 3 sizes: dimension range from biggest building block in length 105mm x width 85mm x height 40mm to smallest house in length 8omm x width 60mm x height 40mm.
2. Others items: Wind Turbines, length 170mm x width 80mm x height 25mm 4. Terrain puzzle: Type A, length 300mm x width 200mm, Type B, length 240mm x width 200mm
Tags: Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, Educational Learning Toy, City Blueprint, Inclusive, Safe, Resilient, Sustainable
Production Technology: Material: corrugated paper, Production technology: using laser cutting, output plane, hand-painted and glued. Surface treatment: color using non-toxic waterproof acrylic paint, part of the surface retains the surface texture of corrugated paper.
Design Challenge: Corrugated paper as the only materials made this puzzle toy unique and different from other toy materials on the market, due to the thicker part of the paper, it cannot be completely cut during laser cutting, and it needs to be manually modified, because of the large number of objects in the shape, the color plan was constantly adjusted. In order to achieve the final ideal shape and color, the team tried and revised many times, and finally came up with the best solution.
Research: Type of study: STEAM education focus on Sustainable Development Goals.
Objectives：To raise consciousness on the sustainable development goals for preschool age children, especially the issues of urban sustainability, inclusive, safe and resilient.
Method: Type analysis, urban environment analysis, material analysis, toy type size analysis
Data Collection: Market research for children aged 3-6, market analysis of toys aged 3-6 and analysis of the opinions of teachers and leaders in early childhood education
Research tools: Rhinoceros 3D,Adobe Illustrator, KeyShot
Inspiration: Many of the fundamental values of tomorrow society are being formed in early childhood contexts today. Since the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs, is the plan to build a better world for people which were adopted by United Nations Member States in 2015. Among the 17 goals, the SDGs no.11th, to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. Early childhood education therefore has a major role to play in achieving sustainable development, and by toys as a tool to enhance preschool children consciousness and established the concept of the SDGs.
Project Duration: The project began in June 2021 and was completed in Tainan, Taiwan in March 2022. Attending Young Designer's Exhibition(Yodex) June 2022 in Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall.
Operation Flow: Play teaching aids with city building as the core, during the game, you can first color the objects made of corrugated paper to cultivate patience and concentration, then assemble the baseboard according to the silhouette figure configured on the blueprint, improves visual observation during assembly, final stage begins to stack houses, and with illustrations to guide education, let children integrate into the situation to play toys.
Team Members: Instructor: ChungSheng Chen
Designer: ChenYu Pan
Designer: YiLin Chen
Designer: SihCi Huang
Designer: ChihLing Kuo
Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Department.
Image Credits: ChenYu Pan,
YiLin Chen,
SihCi Huang,
ChihLing Kuo.