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wurm werkstatt





Bachelor Project 2018



Wurm Werkstatt is fun: building huts, hiding in it, inventing landscapes, going on new trips every day - all as often as you want. Children experience the relationship between object and space and are encouraged to develop their own ideas and find expression for their fantastic inner world, both cognitively and motorically. Construction-based play can offer a wide range of benefits - creativity, fine motor skills and spatial imagination are thus actively influenced. From soft, lightweight perforated plates and worm-like to spherical connectors, they can build abstract and concrete objects by connecting, stacking, and pinning the individual components.


Wurm Werkstatt not only radiate a modern colorful design with a gender-neutral aesthetic, but also combine the most valuable learning content of conventional educational toys: free self-development, maximum play instinct and limitless creative power.



"Children can build abstract and concrete objects from perforated plates and worm-like, spherical connectors."



material





Currently there is a function prototype available, which is soft, easy to clean and flexible in its function with its base plates made of EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate) and the connectors made of PU foam. It can be produced very inexpensively and has the advantage, as a foamed plastic, that no questionable plasticizers have to be used for the production. Instead of PU foam, natural rubber would be an alternative material to meet the needs of children's products.



change





In order for the adolescent to be up to the challenges of the future, free creativity is necessary in order to be able to act and think individually. Toys that exclude any association will be hard to replace. Wurm Werkstatt therefore offers free space for imagination and encourages children to creatively develop their own ideas and find expression for their fantastic inner world. A construction toy that oscillates between the educational and entertaining functions. Another goal with Wurm Werkstatt is to position itself on the gender-segregated toy market with a gender-neutral aesthetic and to oppose the stereotyping of toys



Model making and process...



wurm werkstatt movie





Field research user experience with Quendolin (4 years), Edvard (6 years) and Levi (8 years).





Photo credits





Ole Sauer



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