Super Powered Toy — workshop

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.

WORKSHOP conducted by Seçil Uğur Yavuz

Super Powered Toy Co-creation kit was used by the Design for Children master (Unibz) students during the Designing Technology for/with Children course. The students brought stuffed toys that were not anymore in use, and created stories of super powers by embedding sensors and actuators to simulate these powers. The sensors and actuators later were taken apart after the workshop. The toolkit will generate super power ideas and move from one workshop to an other.

Date: July, 2021