Ocean SOS Educational Learning Toy by SiouChung, SiYu, YongZhen, TingYuan |
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| DESIGN NAME: Ocean SOS PRIMARY FUNCTION: Educational Learning Toy INSPIRATION: Beach cleanups have become very popular with environmental NGOs over the past decade, but ended up is just a spotlight event mainly for show rather than a long term answer to the coastal pollution. When we learned how much effort had been putting into the marine protection and conservation from Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd organization, the team came up with an idea to develop a series of educational learning toys for preschool age children with saving the ocean marine life as the core concept, we believe education is always the ultimate solution for the world’s problem. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This is a series of educational learning toys for preschool age children, helping the children to develop their consciousness on the ocean garbage pollution, the effect to the marine wildlife. Toys were made from FSC certified natural wood, the marine characters; the whale stomach was full of garbage, the turtle is tangle with fishing net, the hermit crab shell was replaced by plastic cap, the pelican mother is feeding ocean garbage to its baby. With the scenario card, teachers interact with the children to set the marine characters free from the sufferings. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Through this set of educational learning toys, children try to untie, to get-rid of, to pick, to choose, to unscrew and twist, that to solve each of the marine character problem, at the same time, enhancing their hand and finger muscle, teachers using the scenario story card to interact and story tell, gradually to deep root the awareness of marine life protection, ocean garbage pollution, and eventually the Global Sustainable Development Goals. PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project began in July 2018 and was completed in Tainan, Taiwan in March 2019, and having its first exhibition in biggest department store of Tainan, March 2019, and first week of May 2019 the Young Designers' Exhibition held in world trade center of Taipei. FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Production Tech: Laser Cutting CNC Miling Material: FSC Certified Beech Wood, Cardboard Coloring: Water-based Paint SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Whale: Length 210mm x Depth 110mm x Height 30mm Turtle: Length 150mm x Depth 100mm x Height 50mm Pelican Mother:Length 130mm x Depth 80mm x Height 110mm Pelican Baby:Length 110mm x Depth 70mm x Height 85mm Hermit Crab:Diameter 70mm x Height 60mm TAGS: Educational, Learning, Toy, Marine Wildlife, Ocean Garbage, SDGs, Pollution, RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Study how to make serious global issues, through education to use in a simple and interesting way to let children learn, recognize and explore children's hands and eyes coordination, hand muscles, logical thinking and mental development. Through the online data of children's educational toys, in terms of diverse shapes and institutions, most of them are made of plastics that can be made for mass production. in addition to safety problems, such as children will accidentally put toys in the mouth, and the plastic itself has toxins. In order to express our concept that we do not want plastics to flow into the ocean, we decided to use natural materials to renewable toys, and design an environmental topic to teaching toys. Let the toys get recognized and valued. CHALLENGE: In order to make the productions and ocean issues cooperate with each other, making the design more logical, collecting relevant articles and videos to get the inspirations from them. we choose to use FSC-certified wood without destroying any ecology. We have spent a lot of time dealing with limitations and cost considerations due to our wood processing. I think the biggest challenge is to let all kindergartens and markets to accept this issue and accurately communicate goals such as ocean issues to everyone. ADDED DATE: 2019-02-28 05:01:20 TEAM MEMBERS (6) : Instructor: ChungSheng Chen, Designer: SiouChiung Wu , Designer: SiYu Wu, Designer: YongZhen Li, Designer: TingYuan Lin and Tainan University of Technology/ Product Design Department. IMAGE CREDITS: SiouChung Wu SiYu Wu YongZhen Li TingYuan Lin PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS: patent pending |
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NAME: Tainan University of Technology/ Product Design Department PROFILE: Established in 1965, Tainan University of Technology is an university with “cultural creativity” as the core value, they devote themselves to educate talents with the ability of “applicable practicing” and “humanistic technology” that conforms to the needs of the society and the industries. To fulfill this goal, they are positioned and advancing to a technology university of “cultural and creative teachings.” |
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Ocean Sos Educational Learning Toy by Siouchung, Siyu, Yongzhen, Tingyuan is Runner-up for A' Design Award in Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design Category, 2018 - 2019.· Read the interview with designer SiouChung, SiYu, YongZhen, TingYuan for design Ocean SOS here.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with SiouChung, SiYu, YongZhen, TingYuan . · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by SiouChung, SiYu, YongZhen, TingYuan . |
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