Children & creativity two radically different examples

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This morning, I wanted to offer you two quite different stories about children and creativity. The first, as you will see, is a nine-year-old boy who lives in Los Angeles and who made his own game stand in his father's store. The second is radically different, it is a robot with which children will be able to generate drawings. If I show you this, it's to see two examples, the first done with the means at hand, with a child having fun and pushing his creativity very hard to achieve his goal, and the second done with a machine and markers for children. Cain's game: "Caine Arcade" is a short film about a cardboard box about a 9-year-old boy, Monroy Caine, who spent his summer vacation building a rather elaborate but totally DIY cardboard game stand with parts from the store automobile from his father.
  
Caine dreamed of the day when he would have lots of customers visiting his booth and so he spent months planning it all, perfecting the games, making displays for the prizes. source The robot that draws: The artist Lorenzo Bravi supervised a class of children with this “drawbot” project, a robot used to draw, produced as part of the Minimondi jewelry retouch service Festival in Parma, Italy. Its design uses a kind of milk mixer with batteries, velcro and markers on the end! The result is similarly the same as with a Spirograph, but freer and easier to manufacture. source On one side or the other, there is the notion of diversion, of modified object, displaced from its primary function, of “hacking” therefore. But one is the initiative of an adult who trswer king April 24, 2012 at 0 h 27 min Even if it is very scripted the first, it is super nice.



As for the second Marie Hélène Visconti, you're wrong to deprive yourself of it, it's a superb idea too, because it's one more tool, a modern spirograph, and I'm sure we can push the concept even further.  Answer Leave a comment Your email address will not be published. Mandatory fields are marked with * Comment * Name * Email * Website Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn more about how your comment data is used . Graphics and interactivity BLOG TV BOOKS GAMES MY PROJECTS EVENTS Created by Geoffrey Dorne, designer & founder of Design & Human, this blog presents projects around graphics, design and creation. Created by Geoffrey Dorne.