Children's toys are very often prescriptive in their function, designed with a certain task or role-play in mind. This competition asks for an affordable object or a series of objects that a child can play with in which the function is not prescriptive but open to interpretation. The object can be of any scale. The objective of the design should be to encourage exploration and to inspire a child to derive his/her own associations and invent their own interaction or way of playing with the object.
You must specify which age group your design is aimed at and how your scheme takes into account the cognitive development level of that age group. In addition, your scheme should demonstrate environmental responsibility, whether through material selection, production techniques or potential for recycling or reuse once the object has been outgrown.
Prizes
1st prize: $5000
2nd prize: $3000
3rd prize: $1500
Popular prize: $500