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Collaborative Making

Co-designing workshop with Avalahalli Anganwadi Children

it is important to understand learner behaviours and information-seeking patterns while designing for children. Through this project, we engaged with 3-6 year-old children at Avalahalli Anganwadi in Bangalore. To design and facilitate a workshop for these children we took the approach of codesigning and participatory design activities. the workshop was structured and guided by the responses and insights developed through engagement activities conducted for the children. Understanding the how Children perceive and objects, material and information and their ways of exploring, experimenting and experiencing the world, was an insightful and educative experience for me

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CO-DESIGN PROCESS

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Heuristic box activity


Box filled with objects of daily use accessible and relevant to the children was given to them. No instructions were provided, children were urged to engage with the materials in the box freely.


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Observation- Children engaged mostly with activities that created sound. We observed that we could engage them through ' Sounds'


Hence we decided to have ‘Sound as Lens’ for further activities

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Mapping the concept lense and further engagement activities

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Planned activities were based on
 

Body as an instrument
Body + found object as an instrument
Play +Explore sound of the found object.

Co-create instruments in teams

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Final collaborative making activity was to let children experience sounds and create their own sound instruments using the found objects given to them.

 

Prior to the final activity, we made toys for their observation and exploration

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These toys were made by children as part of the final workshop.

Children making their toys was an exhibit of their free-flowing creativity, their uninhibited experimenting nature and bubbling curiosity.

Other unplanned activities and objects children made and had fun with.

Communicating through creativity.


“Akka, take ice cream”


“I made aeroplne “


“look at the house i drew”

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