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Part 1:
Post the link to your slides.
Part 2:
Select and answer one of the questions we discussed during the presentations in one or two paragraphs, no more. This question does not need to be one of your questions. When answering consider that you should agree or disagree, then explain your answer, and finally provide an example or evidence to support your answer. You can expand on something you already said during the discussion or something completely new that you understood after listening other perspectives.
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Choose the user for the project 2 you are going to make in the next weeks.
Post an interview to this person, you can post a video or a script. Ask questions to your user such as what do they like to do?, what animal/object/colors does they like?, what do they do for living?, what are their hobbies?, what toys do they have or had they liked to play the most? what skill do they want to develop the most? etc…Observe, draw sketches with your observations and be strategic and ask or do anything you think it is useful for designing their toy.
Post your methods and results of the interview with your user. Write about what you found interesting for your purpose of designing a toy for this person. Finally post three ideas/sketches of toys you can design and make for this user, considering the play value and what playing experience you are going to provide with this toy.
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question from Sophia’s group:
What does play mean to human civilization? Do we need it? Why?
I believe that play is essential to human civilization because being happy make everyone feel better about themselves. Play is a way of creative communication and creativity drives human civilization forward. Our group’s reading ““Play Makes Us Human I: A Ludic Theory of Human Nature” mentions how play shouldn’t be too serious and play happens in different form throughout human life. In adulthood, we have social play and we consciously navigate around the hard rules and disciplines in society. The reading also mentioned that play is creative, not for survival means. I think in this context, play act as a method to enhance our experience during the need to survive on this world.
What are some activities you enjoy doing?
making food, cooking bun, interesting food(fermented baking food, turning traditional buns into new kinds that other have not done)(succeed of fermenting process, too long time it will fail, finding the perfect amount of time of fermented that will make it taste the best)
I still like to grow vegetables and fruits and stuff I like to eat myself. i also like to create the sticks to help the plants grow properly. seeing the plants grow everyday makes me feel satisfying that it’s made from my own efforts.
What is your favorite animal and why?
dogs because they are friendly and I had a dog when i was younger, no preference for dog, very friendly and not angry towards you. I like seeing their tail pointing left and right , approach you and be calm right next to you
What objects do you used to love? What toys did you have in the past, even when you were younger, what did you enjoy playing with?
At my age right now, i have less and less interest. But when i was younger, i really life handcrafted toys by myself, such as slingshot made from wood, fake wood gun, fake four wheel skateboards that you sit on, four wheels and one wood board 2ft by 3 ft. and a handle in the front , little chair in the back, raising birds and planting and build flower pots