Three Pears

Three Pears: Design For Modern Families

Musical Interactive Wall

 

Moment Factory -- which has plenty of experience producing live installations for clients such as Cirque du Soleil, Disney and Nine Inch Nails -- recently installed its first interactive musical wall in the otherwise stark emergency waiting room of CHU Sainte-Justine, a hospital for mothers and children in Montreal.

A light projector displays a rainbow-coloured musical sheet on the wall and motion sensors are set up to catch the path a user traces with their finger, playing the corresponding notes in sequence and displaying colourful representations of the shapes and sounds they create.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-06/06/moment-factory-hospital-installation

Modern Kid: The Interior Design Show

Three Pears

Playable Studio

Stokke

Simple Green Baby

Tiptoe Rugs

 Modern Kid: The Interior Design Show

 January 24-27 2013, Toronto

Crazy Forts

Crazy Forts

discovery toys

Discover Toys

University of Gothenburg

Helga Björg Jónasardóttir is a design student at University of Gothenburg in the Child Culture Design department in Sweden.  Her piece, playbl, was shown in Milan this year in a group show of fellow students.  Playbl, as pictured, is a multifunctional coffee table that fosters the co-existing needs of adults and children at the same time.

The University of Gothenburg offers a masters program in Child Culture Design.  The following excerpt from the university's website details a brief overview of the program:

Imagine a design specialization where the focus is on the perspective of a child: On children’s play, pedagogy, development, culture, health and above all on the tools of play. On the participation and inlfuence of childen and youth on society. Imagine a design specialization that utilizes the great existing bank of knowledge that has been accumulated in Sweden, in such areas as play, health care, education and communication. In the Fall of 2009 this vision became a reality at HDK- School of Design and Crafts, Universtiy of Gothenburg, with the introduction of the Child Culture Design Programme, CCD, a design programme unlike any other.

Mark Horton

Converting an 8500 sq ft former Gymnasium into a three classroom pre-school for about 100 children, the idea developed of an s-shaped, canted wall which narrows and widens, made of studs and gypsum board.  At the two bulges, where it is widest, the wall is three feet thick at floor level.  Along the wall are openings for children to crawl through, sit in and peek out.  Cantilevered planes jut out to provide spots for sitting or standing.  Add colour and the wall becomes an abstract element for which the children constantly invent new uses. [The Little School is located in San Francisco, California, USA)

Large Vinyl Prototype

interlocking modular vinyl tile; each triangle 7 x 7"

details

Small Vinyl Prototype

interlocking modular vinyl prototype; each triangle 3 x 3"

tangle toy

Modular Play Structure

simple aerial view of a child's playroom

Play

tabletop; each tile is composed of 24 triangles which fit together to make the tabletop.  the puzzle pieces are held together by magnets and can be picked up and manipulated as one desires.

manipulated tabletop; lends itself to play

Floor Installation

experimentation with scale and interactive floor installations; initially the carpet is held to the floor with magnets, but can be lifted easily to play and build one's own creation [as seen above].  the installation simply lends itself to facilitate play.

Modular Wall Tiles

modular wall tiles made with Flor carpet samples

Geometric Paper Patterns

trapezoid

triangles of various sizes

triangle and diamond

triangle and diamond

triangle

diamond

diamond and triangle [completed by a child]

triangles of varying sizes [complete by a child]

Acrylic Experimentation

Oatmeal

Sugar/ Salt

Handmade Paper

Fall Leaves

Japanese Paper

Glass

Soft Clothing

Many children are extra-sensitive to the texture and feel of clothing. Soft® is the first line of inclusive clothing designed with the needs of all children in mind, including those with Autism, Sensory Processing Disorder, ADHD, and tactile defensiveness/sensitivity. We use flat seaming and seamless construction for extra comfort, 100% of the softest combed cotton and our specially developed Soft Sensory Blends , wide collars, encased elastic waistbands, printed labels (tagless), custom fits, and much more.