Iron Toy · 2022
Blocs Intummy Educational Learning Toy
by Nien Tzu, Yu Ling, Wei Jia and Chia Yi
- A' Design Award 2022 in Toy
- CLIENT: Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Deparment
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 26,385
- Verification code 6B27375A13 · Verify this award
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About Blocs Intummy Educational Learning Toy
Blocs in tummy was created to convey the concept that everyone has access to safe and adequate food. The main purpose is to educate preschool children about hunger, and learn to share and increase their awareness on food shortage. Geometrical food blocks can be share among children to fill into the empty stomach of the dolls, guided by an illustration story book, to enhance the cognition of food sharing and food cherish.
About the A' Design Award
Blocs Intummy Educational Learning Toy is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Blocs Intummy Educational Learning Toy is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Blocs Intummy Educational Learning Toy is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
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- Unique Properties
- Blocs in tummy was created to convey the concept that everyone has access to safe and adequate food which conform to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals SDGs no.2, zero hunger. The main purpose is to educate preschool children about hunger, and learn to share and increase their awareness on food shortage. It is hoped that preschool children can be inspired by playing with this innovative set of educational toys . Geometrical food blocks can be share among children to fill into the dolls with empty stomach, guided by an illustration story book, to enhance the cognition of food sharing and food cherish.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Dimension:Each doll Height270mm x Width190mm x Thickness65mm
- Tags
- Children's educational toys, human rights, hunger, independent sharing, balanced diet
- Production Technology
- Material: wood, cotton fabric, cotton
Production technology: hand-sewn, hand-cutting
Surface coating: natural wood wax oil on the paint surface - Design Challenge
- To integrate the profound issues into the language of design, and to seek guidance from the early childhood education profession and tailor, to understand information on pre-primary education and commercial safety products, and to make a set of children's teaching toys which break through traditional education and have long-range planning.
- Research
- Research type: How to transform abstract concepts into design language, early childhood education, cognitive psychology, heuristic education.
Research goal: Inspire awareness of hunger, learn to share and increase knowledge of food.
Research methods: type analysis, material analysis, toy type and size analysis, color analysis, cognitive psychology, children psychology, children’s picture book presentation, early childhood education learning goals.
Data collection: 3-6 year old children's toy market survey, children's toy analysis, children's cognitive development, toy safety regulations data.
Research tools: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe photoshop - Inspiration
- According to the SDGs no.2 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the elimination of hunger, everyone has the right to have safe and adequate food, but observations show that there is still a problem of uneven distribution of food and insufficient nutrition in society.
- Project Duration
- The project started in July 2021 and was completed in Tainan, Taiwan in March 2022. First debut in Young Designer Exhibition (Yodex) June 2022 in Taipei World Trade Center NanGang Exhibition Hall.
- Operation Flow
- This is an educational toy with dolls and building blocks as the starting point. Through observation and assembly, from knowing different food dolls to increasing knowledge of food, and with the guidance and correspondence of story and picture books, children can play in the context; in the process of hunger, children can feel the importance of balanced nutrition and learn to share on their own.
- Image Credits
- NienTzu Chang
YuLing Tsai
WeiJia Gong
ChiaYi Hung