Play with Principles

My final project focused on play and education.
My research focused on how people, schools, and
cultures define play and how it should be a
part of everyday life. I started with Adventure
Playgrounds and their start in Denmark. This
led me to work with the Lead Curator of the
Early Years Gallery and the head of Design at
the Science Museum in London where I was going
to be trained to field test toys I made... Then
the pandemic hit and I was forced to reevaluate
my understanding of play.

I was truly inspired by the creativity that
people, schools, and families had despite these
difficult times. It inspired me to Play at
Home. Using basic play principles, we seek to
create and deconstruct objects, thus enabling a
new identity and new purpose for play.

PLAY IS RESILIENT

Creation and Destruction

Creation and destruction were my driving design
principles. By taking apart objects to it most
basic form, I was inspired to create a completely
new piece with a new playful purpose. The making is
playing and the objects become inherently playful.
I wanted to show that play can be found within
everyday objects. By taking the core idea of
creation and destruction, there are endless
possibilities to create new objects from materials
found at home or in my neighborhood. For my
project, I just choose the most playful versions.