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Open-ended, creative toys play a vital role in early childhood development. Through hands-on exploration, they build imagination, problem-solving skills, and attention span. As children play, they invent and reinvent and develop crucial motor and cognitive skills. In a world of fast-paced digital play, tactile and story-driven toys offer a much-needed space for slow, mindful creativity.
ImagiBlocks: The Tiny Troupe is a building block-type toy designed for children aged 3 and up. Handcrafted with care from sustainably sourced local wood, the storyline of the toy is based in a circus world, and every child is free to create any silly circus character they can imagine. They also have the choice to recreate a ready-made circus character, making way for a more puzzle-like approach, which is also highly beneficial for their development.
At the halfway point of the project, when everything was still in the making, we worked as a class to create a very successful exhibition at Hackney Depot. I present to you the In the Works work in progress show. Its goal was to gather user feedback in the midst of our project. I even got selected to print out my previous project’s writing, exhibit it, and from then on it will be in the UAL Chelsea Library!