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Designing Educational Toys & Spaces

Author
Irene Guerrieri
Year
2024
A yellow toy boat combined with an orange fork-handled spoon shape, isolated on white.
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Irene Guerrieri looks at how to design for children through the work of toy and learning-space designers Cas Holman, Rosan Bosch and Rasu Watanabe, built around a freer, more autonomous idea of education. In the Symbiotic Design Framework it offers a tender application of the Humans component: designing outcomes for the youngest, most demanding users.
How do you design for children? Guerrieri answers through the work of leading toy and learning-space designers, toward a freer, more autonomous idea of education. A tender application of the SDF's Humans component — designing Outcomes for the youngest, most demanding users. According to the publisher, the book addresses how to design for children through the projects of designers Cas Holman, Rosan Bosch and Rasu Watanabe, built on the idea of a freer, more autonomous form of education. It is aimed at designers, educators and anyone working with children's toys and spaces, combining images of these projects with an exploration of play-based learning from different geographical and cultural perspectives.

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