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Slide 1: A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy Designed during the the course: Design for Children Play and Learning (ID5182) Tutor: Mathieu A. Gielen (M.A.Gielen@tudelft.nl) – Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering Conceived by Ana Laura Santos // Integrated Product Design Master Bernardo van de Schepop // Design for Interaction Master A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy

Slide 2: Design Goal // Concept Development // Final Concept Design Goal // Problem definition Inspiration • Emphasize that playful toys can born from everything around, even from scrap materials; The toy should • Be a tool that implies the learning process; • Could contribute to economic and social development; • Stimulates environmental conscience; Designers should • Provide as much fun as possible during all play phases; • Make-playing becomes a learning activity; • Offer a self-explanatory toy design (avoid instructions); A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy

Slide 3: Design Goal // Concept Development // Final Concept Development // First Ideas Starting points • Use raw-disposable materials (PET, Paper, aluminum cans); • Offer a set of shapes that could compound a home-made building kit; Early Stages • How to offer a mixer that is not dangerous or powered? • How to not give instructions? A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy

Slide 4: Development // Trials Experiential prototype • The paper got stuck in small shapes; • The free-from shape do not work during the drying process; Recommendations • Bucket should help the grabbing and the mixing process; • Mixer should have feet/support; • Shapes should be simplified; • Extra tools might help the child; • To be hand-mixed the pulp receipt should be fluid and easy to mix; • Inside shapes migh help to press the water out. A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy

Slide 5: Final Concept // A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy

Slide 6: Design Goal // Concept Development // Final Concept Final Concept // Target group • 06 - 12 years old: Use environment • Home or outdoors; Materials involved • Parts: plastic; • Mixture: paper and water (no glue or chemicals involved); Type of play involved (in order) • Sensopatic: preparing the mixture; • Construction: making “paper-cookies”; • thus, Role and fantasy play; A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy

Slide 7: Design Goal // Concept Development // Final Concept Final Concept // Less is more • One spatula was designed in a way that it can help to press the water out without demanding inside shapes originally used in the first trials; • The mixer and the spatula showed to be enough, no extra tools were needed. • The toy offers complementary shapes; A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy

Slide 8: Design Goal // Concept Development // Final Concept Final Concept // A self-explanatory toy • Arrows blades designed to invite movement; • Paper quantity pre-defined in the top; • Water level marked inside; Bucket-Shape • Finger path to help on grabbing the pulp inside the bucket; • Swing to easily take out not used pulp; A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy

Slide 9: Design Goal // Concept Development // Final Concept Juegos Falomir and The toy perfectly fits to Falomir’s catalogue because • It involves educational activities, inviting to recycle paper, increasing the awareness about environmental issues; • It stimulates construction-play activity as other manufacture’s toys; • It requires manual skills involved in a pleasurable materials playing activity as SuperTorno does. • Strategically it also could offer extra sets with shapes and paint to help the kid to finalize their home-made paper-toys; A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy

Slide 10: Design Goal // Concept Development // Final Concept Final Concept // Needs still demands • User testing with children using the final tool-set; • Improvements on stability and portability; • Adjustments on quantity of paper and water required for a easy-to-mix paper pulp; It also demands packaging design • The final package could use paper that could be torn and used in the first recycling-paper experience with the toy; Potential accidents to be prevented • One child can drop the bucket full of water on his/her feet; • Some types of inks on magazine and newspaper might be toxic*. * Until 10 years ago, lead, cadmium and other toxic heavy metals were commonly used in paper inks. Now, however, most publishers use organic pigments. Most of these pigments are the same as those used in tattoos, lipstick, hair coloring and other cosmetics. A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy

Slide 11: Thank you! Team Ana Laura Santos // Integrated Product Design Master Bernardo van de Schepop // Design for Interaction Master A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy