New technologies for the future — Hands-on

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Co-create research project funded by Free University of Bozen-Bolzano aims at expanding co-design process with children from a physical classroom and workshop setting to a remote co-creation process in which children from different localities with different access to tools and facilities can create connected/smart object ideas in a collaborative way. As an outcome, the project envisions creating digital/analogue tools and instruments for children to collaborate over distance for creating new ideas for digital technology while also reflecting on critical issues of the conscious and sense-making use of it. This project is based on the previously done research project Co-story and builds up on its tools and methods for co-designing technology with children.

WORKSHOP by Roberta Bonetti (UNIBO), Seçil Uğur Yavuz (UNIBZ), Emanuele Marangio (SAMLABS), together with ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO DIFESA GRANDE — TERMOLI.

After the online workshop series, we met the two cohorts in Termoli at Istituto Comprensivo Difesa Grande in order to turn their ideas developed during the online workshops into interactive prototypes. They created 7 smart objects for their school: a smart recycling bin, a robot for exchanging notes during COVID, a furniture for relaxation during lessons, a smart collector for the wishes of the students, a smart writing board and quiz answering robots.

Date: June, 2021