P3 INDIVIDUAL
TOY DESIGN: PLAY AND THE ACT OF PLAY
TASK
Imagine being part of a toy company and assigned to design a toy or an object of play. When playing a toy it is cooperated with body parts and movement. They all respond differently when playing a toy. You are assigned a body part as our main focus for the toy. The task is to make a toy based on the body part assigned to you. The toy should be manual operated. The materials that are used to make the toys are recycled materials, found objects and daily objects.
Body Parts: Head, Neck and shoulder, Arm and hand or leg and foot
For me these pages for empathy, I learned to apply the 5 W and H to figure out how I will understand the concept of this assignment. Since, neck and shoulder was said to be one of the difficult body part to make a toy out of since to waste most fragile body part, I still managed to search games that can be related to the neck and shoulders and movements. At first, I thought there is nothing much to do with the next and shoulder but turns out you can do a lot of things with the neck and shoulder.
DEFINE
As usual, define was the hardest part of the assignment because this is where we try to create new ideas. I sectioned the materials to see what I can actually use for my toy making. From what I learnt during a mass tutorial was to find ideas because I had a hard time finding toy ideas and the way to find ideas is to do it in one sitting all at once and observe how you can use the movements for the toy.
IDEATION
I had to elaborate on the aim, narrative, reasoning and overall concept of the game for each ideation.
PROTOTYPE
I chose the ideation with the most interaction with the neck and shoulder. This is where I show more information on the game and the process of the making of the toy.
THE FINAL OUTCOME
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REFLECTION
CITIZEN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
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The questions are given by the lecturer to see my progress on the assignment helped me improve my work as he asked questions. When my ideas were considered boring because I thought that too, he gave suggestions and it really made me improve my work. When also during a mass tutorial by observing other student's work, it also motivated me to improve my work.
THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS
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As I have mentioned previously neck and shoulders was my assigned body part and I had a hard time finding ideas, there was quite a lot of thinking and problem solving skills involved. I asked myself questions such as “how am I going to make a toy related to the body part?” or “how do I make the toy seem as if it could be sold to the market”, this was a way for me to improve my work. The problem I had was finding ideas and the way I solved it was by looking at neck and shoulder movements and seeing what I can do with it. I have accomplished this during the assignment and I will surely use this to overcome other assignments in the future.
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INTRAPERSONAL
As for this was one of the difficult assignment I managed to overcome this assignment and I did it all by myself including the ideas and how I can develop it. I learnt that there could be many ways to improve your work. I learnt how to find ideas when I was having a very hard time finding them.