Monthly Archives: February 2011

Workshop week 9. 1,5h x2 (pre school children and primary school)

Why? The aim of the workshop is to get inspiration and ideas from children on how the like to play and what is important to them on this matter, as well as to find out what they think about books.

The workshop is planned to be a dynamic mix of discussion and tasks. To make them understand that their insights are very important the warm up is to fill in and complete special signs with name, age and to put it on our shirts. They are the extended and most important team members of this project and it is important to treat them accordingly. The aim for my set up is to “make them feel like experts” and to “treat their views with the same respect you would show an adult research participant” as suggested as one of the basics in working with children in the IDEO Method Deck Junior Cards (IDEO 2010).

How?

• Introduction: Jag heter Stina och jag är 28 år gammal och jag jobbar med ett topphemligt projekt som handlar om lek. Jag har fått höra  ni är väldigt bra att leka och jag är här för att få er experthjälp.

• Name tag making, expert….name….age? (10min)

• What do you like to play? (5 min)

• Could you get that artefact or show that play? (15 min)

• What is important when you play? (5min)

• How do you play with a grown up? (10 min)

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• Could you tell me what a book is? What do you do with a book? Favorite book? How and where do you read that book? (5 min)

• If you were to make a book, what would it look like and what would you do with it? (5 min)

• Task: Could you draw/make it? (20- min) papper och tyg i olika färger och massa pennor

 

Circuit components-receiver-radio

It was a while since we were building these type of things. Tricky but fun!

Building the nest!

We are working on building the nest now me and Emma.We have known for half a year we were to make this prototype and now we have three days to build and make technology work. Why don’t we ever learn?

Chickadee birdhouse

Me and Emma are working on a birdhouse for a special type of chickadee; the. As they are endangered in urban spaces, we are making a housing for the them to facilitate their stay in the city. Shaped as a note you can hang the nest almost anywhere and the bird can move in. The sound of the bird is taken up and through a FM receiver you can listen to your local bird in your radio.

Hi! This is my nest. You can hang it where you like and then I can move in. The architecture suits my style, I’m a modern bird!

 

I stand on the porch in the morning before I leave and sometimes I do qi gong.

It is bigger than you think, you can easily fit two in the one room apartments.

When I sing you can hear me in your radio as my tones are taken up, I am your local bird!