Super Powered Toy — Co-creation kit

About

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.

TOOLKIT designed by Seçil Uğur Yavuz

Super Powered Toy Co-creation kit is a tool to collect the results of the transformation of toys that are not wanted anymore, discarded or thrown away. By embedding superpowers into these toys by using sensor and actuator blocks, children experience a new relation with their toys and repair their broken bonds with these artefacts. The collection will grow with the contribution of children, and they co-create the collective archive of super powered toys.

Date: July, 2021