DESIGN

THE GUIDE TO DESIGN WITH RESPECT FOR CHILDREN’S RIGHTS

The designer’s job has radically changed in recent decades, it continues to evolve and receive interesting stimuli and facing challenges of global impact; we are not telling you anything new but it is good to stop sometimes and think about how our profession is closely linked to a social context and observe how it influences and is influenced by technological and human progress. I have recently made these thoughts when I discovered and deepened the project ‘Design for Children’s right guide’, or the guide to design with respect for children’s rights and to act at the core of the creative process.

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A TOY WITHOUT INSTRUCTIONS

When we play (or we played, that’s up to you), we are used to following instructions, opening a booklet that explains how that toy works or listening to indications, a more or less rigid path that guides us in a sequence of actions. What if all this was limiting for a child? What would happen if instead of following consequential steps, was given a final goal without caring about the route? We find out with Rigamajic, a toy without instructions that challenges different clichés related to the sphere of childhood and the toy world in general.

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LITTLE INVENTORS FOR HUGE IDEAS

There’s something magical between 5 and 12 y.o. If you’ve ever chat with a child of this age, you can understand what I mean; it’s easy to be fascinated by the great imagination that develops from the post-childhood growth phase, until adolescence. What I mainly envy as a designer is the spontaneity in the invention of a game, an activity or an object totally free from economic or functional limits. It is no coincidence that different techniques for generating ideas, such as brainstorming, encourage to become child again, to free the flow of thoughts from any productive or practical constraint, on the assumption that there are no wrong ideas, to become little inventors for huge ideas.

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STORYTELLING THROUGH DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL GAME

L’innovazione nel mondo del giocattolo può nascere in tanti modi, con un nuovo materiale, una nuova tecnologia o delle idee fuori dal normale. Capita altre volte che la differenza parta da una strategia, una serie di scelte e azioni che porta un’azienda a posizionarsi su un piano diverso rispetto ai suoi competitors. È il caso di Sago mini, uno studio di progettisti di giocattoli, un luogo di contaminazioni ma soprattutto un’azienda, un brand che si occupa di progettare uno storytelling tra gioco fisico e digitale per bambini in età prescolare. Questa realtà canadese è interessante in particolare per l’approccio aperto al progetto e per la pianificazione aziendale che ha portato avanti dal 2013 ad oggi.

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POLITICALLY INCORRECT TOYS THAT GAIN SUCCESS

It seems that in the field of board games design there is a growing trend towards the design of politically incorrect toys that gain success. Moreover if we analyze human nature and the behavior of young and old players in front of a board, it’s not strange to confer to the unfairness their success. These games are often play with friends or acquaintances and it is easy to resort to their weaknesses to anticipate their moves or think of ‘borrowing’ a little more money from the Monopoly bank; on the other hand, the fun is also in this, and why resist the temptation to cheat even when playing together, and skipping a turn is not so serious?

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AN INVENTION TO HELP CHILDREN WITH DIABETES

Only in Italy, people with diabetes type 1 (DT1) are about 300,000. This specific disease is also called juvenile or insulin-dependent diabetes because it usually occurs at a young age and is treated exclusively with insulin bites. The Mexican designer who designed an invention to help children with diabetes knows this issue really well.

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AN APP CREATED TO HELP KIDS DURING THERAPIES

Once upon a time there was Niamh Barnes, a 7-year-old girl treated in an English hospital. One day she suggested to doctors and nurses to find a system to support the little patients, to distract them and go with them during their stay in the wards. That desire by Niamh is now reality in Alder Hey’s pediatric hospital in Liverpool that introduced Alder Play, an app created to help kids during therapies that combines Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence for a better hospital experience.

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